On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:13 -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: > I used to save my credit card receipts and enter them manually. Now I import > them. Much easier to download transactions than to key them in every week (or > so). As a result, I stay more current and gnucash's balance matches the > credit card balance better.
I track all my expenses, including cash, so I've already taken that time hit. The cost of the smaller number of bank transactions is no hassle at that point. > The transaction import marks the transactions as cleared. Then I'll use the > reconciliation process to make sure transactions weren't missed in the > downloads, which has happened once or twice over the span of several months. But a big part of the reason behind reconciliation is to catch errors or fraud. If someone steals your card and charges gas, you'll never notice it--or only because you rely on your memory and not the accounting system. Thomas _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
