Reconcile does not work for me

[Derek Atkins]

Svetoslav Trochev <sal_electronics at hotmail.com> writes:

> I am not an accountant so I can't speak how the reconcile really should
> work, but I think I understand why Ken is having a problem here. I
> believe he switched recently from other program to GnuCash, like me. In
> my case I had several accounts that was correctly reconciled in Quicken,
> but at the same time I was in to the process of re-entering old history.
> As result I had several temporary transactions in order to maintain
> correct balance. After I imported the data into GnuCash I had problem
> reconciling the latest statement because in GnuCash the statement's
> starting value is calculated based on sum of all reconciled
> transactions.  As result I could not balance debits and credits. I
> overcome that problem by resetting all current flags and reconciled
> everything again from the beginning. This is very unpleasing experience.
> I have traced the problem to the fact that reconciled window in GnuCash
> is assuming that statement's starting balance is equal to the latest
> reconciled value. This is actually only true if you reconcile your
> account from start and never skip month.
> More generic approach would be if GnuCash is calculating the statement's
> starting value as sum of all reconciled transactions that are only prior
> to the entered  statement's starting date. If this is made I and other
> user could skip a month and reconcile it later.

Once you reconcile an account you CANNOT enter previous history into
that account.

> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available