Reconcilliation

[Steve Dodd]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 10:01:20AM -0800, Jan Steinman wrote:
>> From: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>

>> Wow! After all these years, I never noticed that button on the toolbar.
>> I wonder if that is something that should be removed from the toolbar. If it 
>> were left on a menu, then it could be used by people who actively seek it 
>> out.
>> At least this feature should be documented a little more fully. I have added 
>> a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744065

>
>If it does what I think it does, perhaps it should be labeled "Force Balance."
>
>I'm assuming it is intended to correct for sloppy bookkeeping by creating an 
>entry that makes your books and the bank's agree. If so, where does it 
>get/take the money? Does it create an "Errors" account or something similar?

Did it not used to be called simply "new transaction" or similar? I'm sure 
there used to be a way of adding a transaction from the reconciliation window, 
and I still use this feature for that, taking the transaction description and 
amounts as defaults to be overwritten...

Steve