[GNC] Last month's transactions included in Reconciliation Report

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 3 15:12:09 EDT 2019


Please ignore my typos, my various spellcheckers and devices are taking on
a life of their own.

David Carlson

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 1:46 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Arr,
>
> If you are trying to match your bank statement,  that report seems to be
> the one you want.  Otherwise, as adrian suggests,  there may be a better
> one.
>
> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 12:24 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
>> The Reconciliation Report shows transactions *reconciled* during the
>> period chosen, not necessarily transactions that *occurred* during the
>> period chosen.
>>
>> If you want a report of reconciled transactions that occurred during a
>> certain period, open that account register, go to View > Filter By and set
>> a date range and then specify only reconciled transactions, then Reports >
>> Account Report. Be sure to clear the View filters when done so you can see
>> the entire account again.
>>
>> I would have to ask though, why are you wanting this report? What are you
>> going to use it for? (What are you trying to accomplish?) The original
>> Reconciliation Report *might* be exactly what you need. It is showing you
>> the transactions that were part of the reconciliation just performed. Why
>> do you consider those transactions irrelevant?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Aug 3, 2019, at 8:56 AM, Art Chimes <artsonline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I want to produce a Reconciliation Report for a credit card account. I
>> set
>> > the date range to correspond to the period covered by the statement.
>> What I
>> > get, however, is a report that includes all of last month's
>> transactions.
>> >
>> > This is apparently because those transactions were *reconciled* within
>> the
>> > selected date range.
>> >
>> > Maybe this is standard accounting practice. I'm just a migrating Quicken
>> > user, so I'm pretty sure my knowledge of such things is quite limited.
>> But
>> > it does seem illogical and distracting to have all these irrelevant (to
>> me)
>> > transactions on screen/paper.
>> >
>> > Is there an option I'm missing? (The old transactions appear even
>> though I
>> > did not check the box to display reconciliation date.) Should I report
>> this
>> > as a bug?
>> >
>> > (This may be related to Bug 796614, which has supposedly been
>> addressed.)
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Art
>>
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