Reconciliation

[Jim & Grace Flowers]

I just finished my first reconciliation using gnucash.  The instructions in
the Concepts and Tutorial  Guide on this subject are very good, up to a
point.  The instructions assume that all transactions recorded in gnucash
within a given period will clear and appear on the bank statement.  In
reality, this is very seldom true, at least in my experience.  This is made
very clear in the statement "At the bottom of the Reconcile window there is
a Difference field, which should show 0.00 when you are done reconciling."
This assumes that if there is an amount other than zero, then a mistake has
been made and needs to be corrected.  There should be some way to account
for these outstanding transactions.

 

I don't know if this is a bug, or if someone has come up with either a
solution or a workaround.  I can't complete my reconciling until this
problem is resolved.

 

Thanks,

 

Jim Flowers

dondiegoflores at verizon.net