Alan, > So I guess my question is: what is the date range used for?
A traditional reconciliation will consist of a series of consecutive date ranges. The date ranges should be closed, meaning that there are no dates in between the ranges. Each reconciliation period would pick up where the previous left off. The purpose of the date ranges is basically to communicate to you that as of certain date, your accounts are reconciled with bank records. It's a fixed point in time where you can be assured of the status of an account. If you find an error, there is no need to go back beyond the last reconciliation date to find it. > I think I'm starting to understand how it works: a transaction is > included in a statement if its reconciliation date belongs to the > statement's date range. Is this it? This is true. Once a statement period/date range is reconciled, there shouldn't be any reason to go back to that period to reconcile again. You might occasionally have transactions that have transaction dates within the reconciliation period, but you wouldn't reconcile them if they don't clear before the end of the reconciliation period. In which case, those transactions will continue to be available to you in the reconciliation panel until you reconcile them in a future reconciliation. Grace to you, Blair Watkinson On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:46 AM, Alan Schmitt wrote: > On 4 janv. 09, at 22:17, Kevin Hoctor wrote: > >> On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Alan Schmitt wrote: >> >>> Were you able to reproduce this bug? It just happened again (a >>> reconciled statement became open again because some old transactions >>> were included in it), and it's a pain to manually tweak the starting >>> balance to get things to work out. >> >> >> Hi Alan, >> >> I could not reproduce this but I think your method may be flawed. You >> shouldn't ever have to overlap statement date ranges. If a >> transaction >> is not reconciled, it will show up on the reconcile screen even if >> the >> date of that transaction is much older than the range. > > Ah, I did not know that. As these transactions were grayed out, I > thought I had to change the date range, but after trying I see that > I can click on the transaction. > > So I guess my question is: what is the date range used for? > >> Once you >> reconcile a transaction, the reconcile date is updated. > > I think I'm starting to understand how it works: a transaction is > included in a statement if its reconciliation date belongs to the > statement's date range. Is this it? > > Thanks, > > Alan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
