[GNC] How can I add statement balances to my accounts as checks?

[armanschwarz]

Suppose on July 1, 2019 I get a statement that my account balance is $100.
Since I know this is true and won't change in the future, I should be able
to tell GnuCash that this is the expected balance, and for some kind of
warning to appear if that condition is ever violated for the corresponding
account in GnuCash (kind of like a unit test).

Looking at the documentation for Reconciliation, it seems like this that
feature more targeted at individual transactions rather than setting known
values for balances at given points in time. If I reconcile an account for
12 months every month, and then stop reconciling it the year after, what's
stopping all of those historic balances from getting thrown out of whack?
Does GnuCash remember what the balances should be and prevent this?

Also, if I accidentally enter a wrong date every 5% of the time, and I
accidentally reconcile them incorrectly 5% of the time, then for a large
number of transactions I'm virtually guaranteed to have my history broken,
whereas remembering statement balances would avoid this problem.



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