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

[Christopher Lam]

This is a feature called balance assertions present in ledger-cli, another
bookkeeping tool. GnuCash doesn't have it. However you can approximate it:

https://bit.ly/2mMAKmf

On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 12:28 armanschwarz, <armanschwarz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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