[GNC] I just don't understand reconciliation

Ronal B Morse ron at morsehouse.com
Tue Jun 18 19:40:15 EDT 2019


On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 18:27 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > 
> You shouldn’t need to enter a balancing transaction unless
> you aren’t balanced. And if you need to enter it, you
> *must* check it off (either via ‘c’ in the register or the
> checkbox in the reconciliation window) in order to Finish
> the Reconciliation.
> 
> If you are ‘balanced’ after checking all ‘cleared/posted’
> transactions, then DO NOT CLICK THE `Balance` BUTTON. (you
> didn’t read the manual did you? nor waited for the tool-tip 
> when you hovered over the button)
> 
> If you are ‘balanced’ then click the `Finish` button.
> 
> But you can’t “Finish” if you are not balanced. (bottom
> right figure for ‘Difference’ is $0.00)
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> _______________________________________________
> 
What Adrian said.  Once you understand this, then
reconciliation will make perfect sense, and you will never,
ever press the "balance" button (where that extra transaction
you don't want came from) again. 

Ron





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