Understanding reconciling

[Matthew Pounsett]

On 30 December 2016 at 14:42, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Matthew,
>
> Welcome to gnucash.
>
> Gnucash is double entry; when you reconcile, you reconcile one side of the
> transaction--the side associated with the statement (checking, savings,
> etc.). The other side doesn't ever get reconciled, unless you do as you
> have. That's how it works.
>

If I modify a transaction on one side it gets modified on the other, but
the same doesn't hold true for reconciling.

That just seems odd to me, but thanks for the clarification.


> David
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 19:27, Matthew Pounsett
> <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:
> Hi!  I'm a new user of Gnucash (2.6.13) on MacOS, and I'm trying to
> understanding something with reconciling transactions that doesn't seem
> quite right based on what I've read in the docs.
>
> I've just finished putting in my transaction history for the last couple of
> months.  Once I was done, I reconciled all of my asset accounts (including
> starting balances and bank accounts), liabilities (including my credit
> cards), and income.
>
> What confuses me is that those should cover at least one half of every
> transaction.. but when I view transactions under Expenses they all still
> show as unreconciled.  I had to do a subaccount reconcile of my Expenses
> placeholder to make them all show as reconciled.
>
> Since every expense involves a debit from either a bank account or a credit
> card, shouldn't those transactions have been reconciled when I did the
> reconcile of my asset and liability accounts?
>
> Thanks!
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