On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:31:28AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
>
> Additions to the account ledger that are discovered during reconciliation are
> not a part of the reconciliation itself. As such, they belong in their own
> transactions which span multiple accounts.
>
I'm in agreement, but think that a mark indicating that the errors
were discovered during reconcilation would be useful. Hence the idea
of bracketing the corrections with indicating transactions.
> As for the reconciliation itself, I would add a transaction which
> has two entries "Ending Balance" and "Opening Balance". The
> reconciliation would pick up the prior Opening Balance, include the
> Ending Balance and leave the current Opening Balance for the next
> reconciliation.
There's already something like this, but it's invisible.
--
Randolph Fritz
Eugene, Oregon, USA
