Transaction Reconciliation

[David Carlson]

Derek,

I think that Liz and probably others (as I used to be) are confused when they receive their paper statements and the screen shows some transactions already checked.  They are then not sure which ones they have personally checked unless they start over.

That is always a little more difficult because they are never in the same order on the screen as on the paper statement.  If they do not want to print an extra copy of something so they can use a pencil, they need some tool to track which they themselves have checked.  

It is definitely not satisfactory to assume that downloads are accurately matching transactions so that they can be assumed to be 'cleared'.

David C

--- On Tue, 10/30/12, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Transaction Reconciliation
To: "Liz" <edodd at billiau.net>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 9:20 AM

Liz <edodd at billiau.net> writes:

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:37:02 -0700 (PDT)
> "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> As for your first use case, I don't really see why you'd need to
>> change the R status on a manually-entered transaction; in my
>> experience, the primary difference this makes is to pre-check a
>> transaction in the (above-mentioned) reconciliation window. However,
>> it is a simple matter in that window to mark such a transaction as
>> reconciled--despite it's not having a "C" status.
>
> If I import data there is a 'helpful' change from 'n' to 'c'.
> When I try to reconcile, the 'c' marked transactions don't appear in
> the window, and I used to waste considerable time reconciling from the
> paper statement when I had only part-downloaded the account data.
> Now I change all the 'c' back to 'n' and reconcile speedily.

Anything marked 'c' should just already be checked off in the reconcile
windows.  You shouldn't need to change them back to 'n', unless you wind
up clearing transactions after the statement is generated but before you
receive it -- in which case yes, you will need to uncheck those items in
the reconcile window.

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-derek

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