Force reconciliation on a per transaction basis?
Brian Talley
b225ccc at gmail.com
Sun Feb 11 17:11:33 EST 2007
There have been times in the past that I wanted to do this - the
details I can't recall anymore. But, let's take my current scenario:
I switch to GnuCash in October, 2006. At the time of switch, I go
back to say August, 2006 and start entering transactions. As I work
through these statements, all the accounts I think I need get created
and everything balances/reconciles, etc. Then, let's say, in February
2007, I realized the way I've been tracking my auto loan hasn't been
sufficient and I want to modify it. At the same time, I feel like I
have a good grip on what I'm doing and I want to go back through
December, 2005 (the origination date) and enter all the data about my
loan. It's only one payment per month, so it's not that big of a deal
to go back and enter the information. But, as you see where I'm
going, the payments I entered that occurred between December 2005 and
August 2006 aren't reconciled. In this case, TO ME, it seems logical
to just force the transactions as reconciled.
Thanks,
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Brian Talley
(970) 689 - 0108
b225ccc at gmail.com
On 2/11/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Brian Talley <b225ccc at gmail.com>:
>
> > One problem I've always had with GnuCash is that it doesn't seem like
> > there is a way to force a transaction as reconciled. I realize this
> > probably violates every good accounting practice, but there are
> > instances where it would come in very handy for me.
> >
> > So, is there a way? Even if I couldn't do it from the GUI, I would
> > still be interested to know.
>
> No, because it violates every good accounting practice. Why on EARTH
> would you want to do this? It's not like you get a bank statement
> every day against which you can reconcile. Perhaps you don't understand
> what the "Cleared" state is for?
>
> I'll note that if you edited the data file you could make changes, but
> doing so violates your warranty ;)
>
> > Thanks,
>
> -derek
>
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