Reconciled statements

[Dave Peticolas]

Marcel Felgentraeger writes:
> Am Samstag, 21. April 2001 23:45 schrieb Dave Peticolas:
> > Wesley Sheldahl writes:
> > > So, I'd like to propose adding the statement date to the cleared flag, or
> > > some way to save that information so we can report by statement.  Being
> > > able to close out the books on a year would also be helpful.  Any
> > > suggestions for my current predicament would be welcome as well.  Thanks.
> >
> > Gnucash 1.6.0 will store statement dates with the cleared splits,
> > and you can sort the register by statement date. You can't currently
> > search on statement date, but we might be able to add that.
> >
> > As far as your problem goes:
> >
> > Possibly, you transfered the payment to a different account or
> > didn't specify a transfer account at all. Try searching for
> > transactions in your checking account with the amount the loan
> > payment would have been for.
> 
> Hello everybody.
> 
> I have found a similar problem as mentioned above. I have bought a new 
> software and entered it on the day I spent the money. Every time I go to the 
> bank I get a printout and reconcile my accounts on that day. As far as I 
> remember I have reconciled that transaction as well, only I might have added 
> it in the reconcilation window a second time, since I did not find it at 
> first. After I had reconciled all transactions there was one left, which was 
> the later added software buy. 
> 
> So I left the reconcilation window and deleted one of those entries. I guess 
> I deleted the balanced on and no I have an unbalanced record of a balanced 
> transaction in the guts of my account, which I could not get lost or 
> reconcile without having an error. Is there a way to clear this, other than 
> to uncheck all the transactions and do the whole thing again? Currently I 
> have the software buy added to my computer expenses and transfered the money 
> to an equity account. Thus I know how much I spent on software, but ... well 
> I think its not very accurate :)

So you want to make a single transaction reconciled? Just open the
reconcile window and enter an ending balance as the current reconciled
balance plus the one transaction. Then check it off in the window and
you are done.

dave