Force reconciliation on a per transaction basis?

[Brian Talley]

Well, I guess if you want to do it the easy way... ;)

Thanks for the tip!

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On 2/11/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Brian Talley <b225ccc at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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.
>
> You're thinking too hard about the problem.  The next month all you have
> to do is run the reconcile dialog, ignore the starting balance, make
> sure the ENDING balance is correct, and then just mark off all those old
> transactions at once.
>
> -derek
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