Reconcile does not work for me

[Ken Heard]

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Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Ken Heard wrote:
>> Cliking OK in the "Reconcile Information" window opens the the
>> "Reconcile" window.  I can check off all the reconciled items, but the
>> "finish" button, inoperative when the Reconcile window opens, stays
>> inoperative.  When I close the window all the reconciliations are undone.
>>
>> How does one get an operative finish button, or is this a bug?
> 
> Normally you get the opportunity to choose finish when the last number at the 
> bottom right of the box, is zero.
> Until then, you can't chose zero, but there is one of the options that lets 
> you save a part finished reconciliation.
> 
As far as I can figure out, that number -- the "Difference" -- can only
be zero if every item in both the debit and credit columns in the
"reconcile" window are checked off.  If so, what is the point of the
reconciliation process?

I had always been taught that the purpose of of reconciling bank account
statements with the ledger bank accounts was to determine which
transactions had been recorded in the ledger but had not yet cleared the
bank, and vice versa.  In the present instance I checked off all but two
entries, credits which I had recorded in the ledger but which had not
been entered by the bank in my account as debits.

So, it appears that the only way I can "finish" the reconciliation is by
checking *all* the entries in the reconcile window as appearing both in
my ledger and on the bank statements.  If so, the purpose of a
reconciliation statement as a record of what has not cleared both is
obviated.

Finally, I found no option which permits saving "a part finished
reconciliation", a contradiction of terms.

Ken Heard, Toronto, Canada

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