[GNC] Request for Automatic Reconciliation Function

[Adrien Monteleone]

I understand your explanation, but if you aren't checking and verifying 
every transaction, how do you ever discover when the automated process 
makes a mistake?

Reconciliation was invented long before computers, but I appreciate that 
the process demands one to slow down, take your time, and methodically 
verify the information.

Think of it as proof-reading - the hard way. (I learned in school to 
read stuff backwards when proofing!)

That is a pretty good analogy too:

If you've ever used auto-correct with auto-checking for spelling and 
grammar, or auto-suggestion or auto-completion for entire words and have 
seen the embarrassment and/or nightmare that can produce when the 
computer 'gets it wrong', would you want something like that for your 
financial records?

Regards,
Adrien

On 1/5/23 7:50 PM, Bite Gao wrote:
> GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:
>    Hello! While you have mentioned the requirement of human intervene in 
> the reconciliation process, I do not see it contradicts with the 
> presence of automatically reconciliation system.
>    In a reconcile process, the accountant check the record in the 
> account book with the record in the bank statement (or statement from 
> other institution). He (or she) may found out that two record are 
> identical, or he (or she) may found that some record are not identical. 
> Only the latter requires human notice, since there its no point wasting 
> time on reconciled accounting transactions. An automatic reconciliation 
> system can load the digital statement from the institution, compares the 
> statement with the transaction in the accounting book, and pinpoints the 
> discrepancies out. Then human accountant could step in and perform 
> manual operations, such as checking other vouchers, contact with banks, 
> etc. In the situation of single user, the automatic reconcile system 
> have no reason to block manu
> al reconciliation.
>    Besides, when I means "human err", I means that the accountant 
> overlook an discrepancy and regards it as identical. People do not spend 
> too much time on identical records, since major of the transaction would 
> be in that state. However, it could cause severe consequences if there 
> do have a discrepancy.