Reconciling Splits

[David Cousens]

Hi Joe,

Reconciliation usually only occurs where you have external records for 
an account where you want the GnuCash record to agree, e.g. bank 
accounts where you are issued with a statement, credit card accounts, 
hard copy receipts, payslips etc..

You are reconciling the component of a transaction affecting that 
particular account against the external record, not the transaction as a 
whole.

The other components of a split may not be marked as reconciled as the 
accounts they record a debit/credit for haven't been reconciled or may 
not even have an external record with which they can be reconciled.
Gnucash's process primarily deals with reconciliation against an 
imported statement but the documentation indicates that it can be used 
to reconcile any account. I have never used it other than against an OFX 
imported statement. I presume one could either put records in OFX form 
and import them or use an Excel or CSV to OFX converter to import 
records for accounts for which you don't have a down loadable statement 
in an importable format.

Cheers
Davic Cousens