I was actually think of just keeping it simpler, with asking for the "current target balance" which would be the ending statement balance. The methods that require the opening balance assume that the the previous statement is not available or wasn't balanced. The multi-commodity accounts that I was really trying for is to balance a brokerage account which probably has many different commodities being held at the same time, as opposed to multi-currency.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Chris Leyon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Got it. I am also working on providing a "target" for the >> reconciliation mode so that you will get the delta left for the >> reconciliation. But multi-commodity balances are lots of work to deal >> with, so it will take a while. Would it be worth it to put out a >> single commodity traget in the interim? > > > I personally don't use multi-currency/commodity so I don't feel I can speak > to that feature. On those few occasions when I have traveled abroad, I > usually have a small enough number of transactions in a foreign currency > that it is feasible for me to go back and manually edit the entries, > retroactively changing the amounts into whatever USD appears on my credit > card statement, trusting that the bank did the conversion properly. :-) I > have to revisit those transactions anyway because there's usually some > unforseen "foreign currency conversion charge" which gets applied after the > fact that I need to account for. > > But I think a single reconciliation target would be sufficient 99.999% of > the time. > > As an aside, I think it's quite convenient to be asked "Previous statement > balance" / "Current statement balance" as two separate questions to > determine this target number because those two values usually clearly appear > on the statements and it saves me from potential arithmetic errors. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
