[GNC] New Balance entry

[Jediator]

This feature is useful when doing recon of a credit card account. After 
a successful recon run, the new balance window will popup up with the 
balance amount preset so you can issue a credit card payment from a bank 
account.  Certainly you can cancel the action (which doesn't affect your 
recon results) if you don't want to enter the credit card payment 
manually (e.g., populating transactions via csv import).  If you recon a 
bank account and the recon balance is zero, the new balance window 
shouldn't show up at all...

-- JC

On 10/25/23 5:19 PM, David H wrote:
> David,
>
> He means after you click OK on the initial Reconcile popup there is a
> further popup on which the first icon is "Add a new balancing entry to the
> account" - this is active only if your Ending Balance is not equal to the
> Reconciled Balance.  if you click this icon it adds a txn for the
> difference which you then must update as one side of the txn is the account
> being reconciled and the other is the Orphan account.
>
> David Carlson's explanation is correct, personally I would never use it as
> I would always want to know why my account didn't reconcile :-)
>
> Cheers David H.
>
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 05:42, David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Finbar,
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by new balance entry. The reconcile dialogue comes
>> up
>> requesting the following:
>>
>> Statement date - enter the closing date on the statement from the bank. It
>> will
>> supply a closing date based on the statement date at which the last
>> reconciliation was doneand usually adds one month.
>>
>> The Starting Balance is calculated and displayed - This is the total
>> balance of
>> all splits in the account which have already been reconciled. This should
>> be
>> equal to the Opening Balance indicated on the statement from the bank. If
>> not it
>> indicates that a previous reconciliation is incorrect eithr in your books
>> or the
>> banks statement - rare but it can happen
>>
>> The Ending Balance This requires you to enter the value of the closing
>> balance
>> from the bank statement.
>>
>> Some banks add their interest payment (or interest charge for a credit card
>> account) at the end of the statement and it may not have been enetered
>> into your
>> books. If this is the case use the "Enter Interest Payment" button to add a
>> transaction to include the interest payment  without halting the
>> reconciliation.
>>
>> Then press the "OK" button to continue.
>>
>> David Cousens
>> On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 15:21 +0200, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> After my previous experiences on here, I am almost afraid to ask a new
>>> question, but, here goes.
>>>
>>> When Reconciling, what exactly is the effect of introducing a "new
>>> balance entry" as is available as the first option on the bar.
>>>
>>> There is nothing under the help that I could identify.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Finbar
>>>
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