[GNC] Reconciliation - Again

[Simon Roberts]

I'm confident that informational stuff, and the date, are irrelevant to
reconciliation. And many times, the transfer field won't matter. BUT, if
the transfer field is another account subject to reconciliation, and that
transaction has been reconciled in the other account (e.g. you made a
literal transfer from one account to another and it's all "gone through")
then you'll likely have some issues. But, if you successfully reconciled
that transaction on both sides... it can't possibly need you to change the
transfer account, so if what you're proposing is logically correct, then I
think it should be safe too.

Reconciliation, to my perspective, is simply the process of ensuring that
you and the bank agree on the transactions, and their amounts, that you
both think have happened. It doesn't matter if you have different
descriptions, or even dates so long as you correctly identify the two
records (yours and theirs) that represent the same actual transaction.

Open to being corrected, of course :)


On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:20 AM Eric Coates via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Good Afternoon
>
> I fully understand that changing the Payment/Charge (on a credit card
> account) or the Increase/Decrease  (on a bank account) will create
> difficulties with future reconciliations.
>
> However, is it possible to change the contents of other fields (Date,
> Description and, particularly, Transfer) without causing problems?
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric
>
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