Reconcile does not work for me

[Jonathan Blake]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Ken Heard <ken at heard.name> wrote:
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> Jonathan Blake wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Ken Heard <ken at heard.name> wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> If you have entered transactions beyond what is on the statement that
>> you're reconciling against (e.g. transactions made in May after the
>> April statement dates ended), then those transactions in May shouldn't
>> be checked as reconciled. In fact, checking them should make the
>> difference (between reconciled balance and statement balance)
>> something other than zero.

> Second, I was and am aware of the point you made.  I reconciled as of
> the date of the bank statement, and the entries in the ledger but not in
> the bank statement were before that date.

If the opening balance in gnucash was correct and every transaction on
the statement (and no others) was marked as reconciled, then the
difference between the statement balance and the balance of what
you've reconciled should be zero. If you don't get a zero balance,
then something doesn't match and gnucash hasn't really been reconciled
to the statement.

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Jonathan