[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 256, Issue 20

[Adrien Monteleone]

You're welcome, but I'm not following how you end up with 'unbalanced 
amounts' or what it is you are referring to in that regard.

The balancing of your accounts is independent, and forced upon every 
entry by GnuCash. (GnuCash won't let your books be 'unbalanced', though 
it will happily let you make them 'incorrect')

The 'correctness' of those entries is what Reconciliation should confirm 
or expose errors to fix. (most likely missing transactions, but 
sometimes transposed digits)

Placing those accounts under a parent and reconciling together only 
facilitates reconciliation *if* the charges for each account are *mixed* 
together on a single statement with a common starting and ending balance.

If the statement shows separate starting and ending balances for each 
account, with separate lists of charges, payments, et cetera, then you 
should reconcile them separately as if you were given two entirely 
separate documents as 'statements'.

Paying the balance is entirely a separate function from the act of 
reconciliation. (pay no mind to the GnuCash 'convenience' of entering a 
payment when you reconcile, that is not a requirement of reconciliation)

Regards,
Adrien

On 7/9/24 12:37 PM, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
> @Adrien,
> 
> Thanks, this seems like the best solution.  It looks funny to leave the 
> unbalanced amounts in all 3 accounts (2 credit card and one parent 
> account), but reconciliation works and generates the correct payment 
> from the bank account.