[GNC] editing reconciled transactions changes reconcile status

[John Ralls]

Dates can be different. Even electronic transfers have clearing time, never mind paper checks (my bleeping water company can’t seem to get electronic transfers to work). I often pay for something with a debit or credit card and book it in GnuCash, then find that the payment actually cleared the following business day at reconciliation time.

On the other hand if one is using paper checks and using the Number field to record them then that’s usually also on one’s bank statement so would be included in the reconciliation... but there are other ways to use that field, so including it would have to be optional.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jan 11, 2019, at 1:37 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> 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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