[GNC-dev] About 3.9 and reconciliation balances

Dale Phurrough dale at hidale.com
Sat Apr 18 11:51:57 EDT 2020


Oops, I misunderstood the turn this thread took. My mistake.
I don't have any particular comments on an autofix to clean XML files with
inconsistent reconciliation dates and the current approach GnuCash has for
reconciliation.

My comments were for some future many months->years away in a later GnuCash
that has an alternate approach to reconciliation.
Sorry if I derailed anyone's reading.

--Dale

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:24 AM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Dale,
>
> I was referring specifically to the dates the bank puts on transactions
> included in the statement for a specific period but not necessarily the
> dates that may have been recorded by a user in GnuCash. The latter of
> course
> may be different and the reconciliation process deals with that.
>
> I disagree with you however about which date should be recorded as the
> *reconciliation date* for a split to the specific account you are
> reconciling for a transaction maked as 'y' (not 'c'). When you do a
> reconciliation you are confirming that the transactions in your books agree
> with the transactions in the statement up to the end date of the statement
> are correct in the amounts recorded and that the balances recorded by the
> bank and yourself  at that date are in agreement.
>
> This is the date you are reconciled to not the date at which you entered
> the
> transaction into GnuCash or the date at which you posted the transaction
> (the date at which the event which causes the transaction to be recorded
> occurred).
>
> Both of these dates are already recorded in the Gnucash transaction data
> structure and recording them as the reconciliation date on a split does not
> really add any new information.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
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