Reconciling w/o statement???

[Jack McKinney]

Big Brother tells me that Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> Gnucash has a "cleared balance" -- take a look at the top of the
> register when you open the account.  You will see a bunch of
> totals (one of which is cleared balance).

    Yep.  That is what I am looking for.  Unfortunately, I have to enter
each of my checking account's subaccounts to find its cleared balance,
and then add all of these together, as the cleared balance is apparently
not propagated up the account hierarchy.

> >    Actually, that is probably not what I mean to say.  I think it would
> > be more accurate to say that I want a read-only way to reconcile my
> > balance against the bank, and can only find a read-write way to do this
> > in Gnucash.
> 
> Eh?!?  What do you mean "read only"?  I don't understand.

     I mark which transactions have cleared the bank.  Then, I read the
cleared balance in Gnucash, which I compare to what my bank says I have.
This is read-only.  If I click on Reconcile, it brings up a window where
it asks me to provide the bank's balance and the statement date I got it
from.  It presumably records this information somewhere in an effort to
reconcile the statement.  This is Read/Write.
     Since the cleared balance is displayed on the accounts page, there
is a read-only way to do this.  Since this cleared balance is not available
on the main accounts page, and it is not propagate up the account hierarchy,
I have to go into each account and sum this manually... 8-(.

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