Reconciliation window can't do basic math?!

[Wolfgang Faust]

It didn't occur to me to try, as then I wouldn't have been able to
reconcile the sub-account, so it wouldn't have matched the statement
anymore.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:50 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> On Feb 20, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Wolfgang Faust <wolfgangmcq at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:23 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Wolfgang Faust <wolfgangmcq at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what a "single-split transaction" is. The two
>>>> transactions that were giving trouble were in fact splits, spread
>>>> across the main account and a sub-account.
>>>
>>> Please remember to copy the list on all replies. Use "reply all" or "reply-list" if your mail client supports it.
>>> I forgot to add it to the CC list on my earlier reply, so reply-all to this one.
>> Drat, I keep forgetting to do that. I wish Reply-To wasn't Considered
>> Harmful. Oh, well.
>>
>>> In general, transactions must have at least two splits; a "split transaction" has three or more. GnuCash 2.6.0 has a bug that can create single-split transactions if you prematurely hit "return", and having created them, it hides them so that they're invisible, but still includes them in balance calculations. This is fixed in 2.6.1.
>> No, I don't seem to have done that at all.
>>>
>>> So I take it that in this case the problem is that you have a transaction which has a split each in a parent and child account? Do you have "Include subaccounts" checked in the Reconcile Information Dialog?
>> Yes, exactly. I had "Include subaccounts" checked; the problem seemed
>> to be that it was double-counting the transaction. In other words, the
>> transaction would appear twice in the Reconciliation window
>> (potentially once on each side), and each checkbox that was checked
>> would cause it to count the entire transaction again.
>> Example:
>> [*] Transaction 1 $2.00 <- In main account, counted as $2.00 + $5.00
>> [*] Transaction 1 $5.00 <- In sub-account, counted once more as $2.00 + $5.00
>> Total: $14.00 <- ($2.00 + $5.00)*2, rather than just $2.00 + $5.00
>>
>> Does that make sense at all?
>
> Yes. Did unchecking "Include subaccounts" fix the problem?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>



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