Reconciliation

[David Reiser]

On 10 Sep 2007, at 8:27:44 PM, lingwitt at bellsouth.net wrote:

>
> 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?

It's the definition of reconciliation. If you want other behavior,  
then you don't want reconciliation.

> I figured reconciliation
> was
> more of a record keeping detail.

Certainly. But the detail is that once reconciled, you never have to  
go back further in time to find any error than to go back to the last  
reconciliation date.

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David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net