reconcile workflow

[David T.]

Well, if you are choosing Postpone, then I imagine that GC is going to restore you to the last state of reconciling (with the previous date and amount). If you change the date, how is GC to determine that the amount in the field was changed manually? It has always seemed pretty clear to me that if I change the date in the reconcile window, that I will need to reset the amount as well.

Perhaps it might be clearer if the documentation at 4.5.1 of the guide were rewritten to explain what GC is actually doing--specifically, that the ending balance is calculated from the amounts of pending transactions that fall on or before the reconcile date. I will see whether I can come up with text for that.

David

--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Anthony Dardis <adardis at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Anthony Dardis <adardis at gmail.com>
> Subject: reconcile workflow
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 10:07 AM
> When reconciling eg a checkbook
> account, GC asks for the account closing date, guesses an
> ending balance, and allows you to put in your own ending
> balance. Suppose you first put in an ending balance and
> don't change the offered closing date (today, I think). Then
> check off transactions so that the account balances to your
> statement. Then you realize you want to change the closing
> date. You postpone the reconcile, start it again, then put
> in the correct closing date. GC will then guess an ending
> balance again, overwriting the entry you put in the first
> time. Then (unless you already know about this) you will be
> confused: the account was balanced, but it's not balanced
> any more, since the closing balance has changed.
> 
> Recommendation: if the user enters a closing balance, don't
> overwrite it.
> 
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