[GNC] editing reconciled transactions changes reconcile status

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Fri Jan 11 04:37:09 EST 2019


Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback, though I preferred to have received it while we were 
actually working in that area :(

So really the only elements to reconcile on are transaction date and amount ?

Geert

Op vrijdag 11 januari 2019 03:36:15 CET schreef David Cousens:
> Geert,
> 
> My opinion is much the same as Adriens' . The critical information you are
> verifying against a statement is:
> 
> the timing (date and/or time) and
> amount of the split to the account being reconciled.
> 
> Where data has been manually eneterd into GnuCash, the date may not be the
> same necessarily as a statement as they will record the date and/or time
> relevant to the handling of the transaction in their hands which may be
> different from your own -  can be importnat for contracts for example.
> 
> I also feel that changing the amount in splits other than the split to the
> reconciled account should not trigger unreconciliation of a reconciled split
> ( which is the crrent position).
> 
> Any other information, while it may assist with identifying reconciliation
> (e.g description memo etc), it is not the information which is being
> reconciled itself.
> 
> In addition the critical information that defines that transaction's
> identity, i.e. internal GnuCash transaction ID needs to be protected.
> 
> My bank doesn't provide in a statement their transaction ID's, or
> transaction time and any description provided is from their perspective not
> mine. My statement is pretty minimal:
> 
> Date   Descriotion                    Debit   Credit               Balance
> Balance State (Db/Cr)
> 
> It is interesting that the OFX files I import from my bank often contain
> much more information than the statements. They however are created on
> demand whereas my statement often comes out a few weeks weeks after the end
> of the relevant period and does not contain any pending events etc and any
> clearances have been resolved. With electronic clrearance times now being
> very short, these sort of discrepancies in accounts are now generally fairly
> infrequent now
> 
> While accounts with bank statements (asset, liabilities) will be the most
> commonly reconciled accounts, they are not necessarily the only ones. In the
> days when I ran a business, I could request and received statements form
> vendors and supplied them to customers to verify that we agreed on what was
> owed to them or by them. If you track income or expense by customer or
> vendor then you may also find yourself reconciling these, especially if
> there is a dispute.
> 
> 
> David Couens
> 
> 
> 
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