Reconciling Splits

[Buddha Buck]

When I get PDF bank statement, I reconcile it using the reconciliation
wizard, matching each transaction against the PDF by eye. I

On Fri, Dec 25, 2015, 5:44 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> 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
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