Reconsile account and subaccount is broken by user activity

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Stephen Torri <storri at torri.org>:

> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 12:50 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> > I went into the subaccount and did a reconciliation on it alone
>> > yesterday. Now that it is done last month's transaction does not appear.
>>
>> Why did you reconcile the subaccount separately?  Do you have a printed
>> statement for the subaccount?
>
> I could not see a way to get a transaction from a previous period to be
> reconciled. So I did the sub account.

When you click on the "include subaccounts" button, then the reconcile
window pulls in all the transactions from the subaccounts.  It also
pulls in all unreconciled transactions dated prior to the reconciliation
date.  So the way you reconcile a transaction from a previous period is
that you just click it when you're in the reconcile window and viola,
it'll be reconciled!

> I think I need to explain how I am using GnuCash. If I am doing
> something that I should not then please correct me. My intention was to
> have subaccounts for my checking account so that I could put in the
> money that I was budgeting or saving for certain things. This way I
> could clearly see how much money was left for groceries for example. So
> this has work well for me. Is this the wrong way to do it?

Nope, this is a very common way to do bucket budgetting.  nothing wrong
with this.  Just click on the "include subaccounts" and all your subaccount
transactions will be pulled into your reconcile dialog.  But you should
always reconcile from the master (parent) account.

> Stephen

-derek

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