Can't reconcile Assets

[Daniel Rosenberg]

Thanks! I will have to do it this way then. I had gotten used to simply
reconcile all accounts in one go once I had checked the statements. I will
have to get used to reconcile every account individually.

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> schrieb am Mo., 5. Sep. 2016, 18:24:

>
> > On Sep 5, 2016, at 8:07 AM, Daniel Rosenberg <dnlrsnbrg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the very helpful answer.
> > I have indeed a few cash accounts in different currencies (GBP, USD, CHF;
> > mostly 0 except the GBP one).
> > Is there a way around this without clearing that account and deleting all
> > FX accounts? I tested this and it works.
>
> Reconciliation needs to be done in each account's commodity. Roll up
> balances that apply prices/exchange rates will reflect market value rather
> than book value, and getting the price information from an aggregate
> statement into the reconcile dialog would complicate it more than we were
> willing to accept, so we chose to disable the "include subaccounts" option
> if any of the subaccounts use a different commodity from the parent.
> There's also the matter that if you have an out of balance reconcile
> tracking down the error is vastly more difficult if you have to juggle
> prices along with transaction amounts.
>
> The right thing to do is to reconcile each sub-account separately.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>