Reconciliation

[lingwitt at bellsouth.net]

On 10 Sep 2007, at 4:28:56 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> lingwitt at bellsouth.net writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> What is the best way to reconcile my accounts out of order?
>>
>> I have newer bank statements, so I can use them now to reconcile,
>> but I'll have to get older ones another time.
>>
>> It seems like reconciliation out of order messes with the
>> Reconcilliation
>> window's number fields in annoying ways. I'll have to end up doing
>> arithmetic on my own in order to match the fields correctly, because
>> the Reconciled Balance is accumulative.
>
> You can't.  Reconciliation is always "from the beginning to
> <reconcile date>", which means you can't do what you want.  This
> is always why it's suggested that you start from scratch instead
> of importing years of history..   Or if you DO import years of history
> just mark everything that WAS reconciled as reconciled all at once.

Is there a good reason for this restriction? I figured reconciliation  
was
more of a record keeping detail.