[GNC] Reconciling subaccounts

[Stephen M. Butler]

For  me the parent placeholder account in GnC is the bank account that 
is being reconciled.  The sub-accounts in GnC are just my way of 
delegating the funds within that account for certain  purposes.

I'm not sure about the use case of using the placeholder as a grand 
total for all accounts held at the bank and then reconciling all of them 
in one step (checking, saving, CD, money market).  I suppose if they 
were all reported on a single statement....


On 10/7/22 10:41, R Losey wrote:
> I kind of like it the way it is currently, for what it's worth.
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:20 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the details.
>>
>> I'd say this is a bug, as the expected result would be to have the
>> reconcile status of sub-accounts updated.
>>
>> You should file that on bugs.gnucash.org
>>
>> It *might* be designed that way however. I could be wrong, but I think
>> the idea for this feature is to be used for 'virtual' sub-accounts that
>> are used for segregating funds in your own books, but not actual
>> multiple real-world accounts with an institution.
>>
>> The parent is the real account in such a case, so that might be why it
>> is the only one marked reconciled with a date. (it is the only one with
>> a statement to reconcile against)
>>
>> In your case, you seem to be trying to reconcile multiple real accounts
>> through a placeholder parent. But GnuCash doesn't know that. (or
>> 'reconciling' non-institution accounts, such as Expenses.)
>>
>> Until it is 'fixed' or changed, I guess your option is to continue to
>> reconcile-finish the sub-accounts to update them, or else just reconcile
>> them all individually rather than together as sub-accounts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> On 10/3/22 4:56 PM, Uttam Chakravorty wrote:
>>> My apologies Adrien, I will be more specific.  Line 2 - >Sales -> A/c No
>> 01: all the subsequent lines starting '01-' are the subaccounts.
>> Reconciling 01 with subaccounts ticked will reconcile all of them, but only
>> update 01's date field.  I then step through the subaccounts and as they
>> are all already reconciled I just press 'Finish' to update their date.
>>>
>>> Line 11 is a single entry with no subaccounts.
>>>
>>>
>>> Line 12 is similar to Line 2, a Placeholder with three subaccounts.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have tried to indicate the above in Column E, however I have made a
>> mistake with Lines 64, 71 and 77.  They have no subaccounts, I annotated
>> them in error as all the top level accounts are reconciled.  In terms of
>> consistency I failed to annotate Lines 12, 17 and 59.  Looking back this is
>> a scrappy piece of work put together in haste.  I hope you will be able to
>> extract something useful, or I will happily do it again.  Please advise.
>>>
>>>
>>> Line 18 (A/c code 5 (should be 05)) is particularly interesting.  This
>> has subaccounts and they have Placeholders which have subaccounts i.e.
>> three levels deep.  Reconciling the top level reconciles all the other
>> levels, however once more it only updates the date at the top level.
>>>
>>> I do not find it too onerous to live with this little extra keyboard
>> activity.  I just wondered if I was doing something wrong again.
>>
>>
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