Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-06 Thread Borden via gnucash-user
6 Sept 2021, 23:51 by jra...@ceridwen.us: > > > >> On Sep 6, 2021, at 12:35 PM, Borden via gnucash-user <>> >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org>> > wrote: >> >> My professional advice>>   >> > > Just curious, where are you licensed and what's the focus of your practice? > > Regards, > John Ralls >

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-06 Thread john
> On Sep 6, 2021, at 12:35 PM, Borden via gnucash-user > wrote: > > My professional advice Just curious, where are you licensed and what's the focus of your practice? Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-06 Thread Borden via gnucash-user
Sep 4, 2021, 11:00 by david.carlson@gmail.com: > I guess it depends on how fussy you are about details.  Since there is no way > to see the reconciliation date there is little reason to insist on that date > being correctly recorded. The GnuCash code displays an incorrect starting >

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-05 Thread Liz Dodd
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 11:22:04 -0500 "Paul Warthe" wrote: > I have reconciled January and February 2021. I attempted to > reconcile March but found too many problems and left it for lack of > time. When I strike problems and cannot finish a reconciliation job, the following are things to try

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread David Carlson
Updating the program should not, by itself, change any current account balances in particular, nor, I would expect, any reconciled account balances or reconcile dates of transactions. Are you sure that the errors that seem to have appeared are actually a result of the update? If there is a new

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Jeff
On 9/4/21 1:16 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: Exactly. But he had already reconciled to Aug 31, so need to use that date. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On September 4, 2021 11:09:12 AM john wrote: Oops, that'w wrong: You can't use the February statement's balance,

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread David H
Christopher, I wasn't even aware this was visible by hovering over the recon flag and I've been using Gnucash since early 2010 for my personal finances and rental property :-) I generally just rely on the recon date column in the accounts register to see when I last reconciled an account. I've

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread David H
I'm with Derek and Fred on this one, I'd be re-reconciling the latest statement. If I inadvertently un-reconcile a transaction I'm probably not likely to pick it up until I reconcile in September and see it in the list of txns to be reconciled even if I do notice it then as sometimes there are

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Exactly. But he had already reconciled to Aug 31, so need to use that date. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On September 4, 2021 11:09:12 AM john wrote: Oops, that'w wrong: You can't use the February statement's balance, you have to use the July statement balance

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Christopher Lam
> I guess it depends on how fussy you are about details. Since there is no way to see the reconciliation date there is little reason to insist on that date being correctly recorded (...) Yes, some users may be fussy. After all the reconcile_date *is* visible in the UI -- you need to hover on the

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Fred Bone
On 04 September 2021 at 13:10, Christopher Lam said: > Derek, > Consider a well-used bank account. You reconcile every end of the month > successfully up to 31 Aug 2021. Accidentally you unreconcile a Feb 2021 > split. You retrieve your 28 Feb 2021 bank statement, try to re-reconcile > and fail

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread john
Oops, that'w wrong: You can't use the February statement's balance, you have to use the July statement balance (assuming that you haven't yet reconciled August) because the reconcile window doesn't know how to use xaccAccountGetReconciledBalanceAsOfDate. Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 4, 2021,

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread David Carlson
I guess it depends on how fussy you are about details. Since there is no way to see the reconciliation date there is little reason to insist on that date being correctly recorded. The GnuCash code displays an incorrect starting balance in the Reconciliation window. When you follow Derek's

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread john
He said the February reconcile. So tell the reconcile info dialog 28 Feb and type in the balance from the February statement as usual. Click OK. As long as you haven't messed up anything else you'll be able to check the one unreconciled split from February and the finish button and you're

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Ah... But that's NOT how you are supposed to recover from that. If you reconciled up for 31 Aug 2021, and you un-reconcile a transaction, it doesn't matter what date the transaction has -- you should re-reconcile 31 August! You just need to re-check the February transaction. -derek On Sat,

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Christopher Lam
Derek, Consider a well-used bank account. You reconcile every end of the month successfully up to 31 Aug 2021. Accidentally you unreconcile a Feb 2021 split. You retrieve your 28 Feb 2021 bank statement, try to re-reconcile and fail because the reconciliation end balance also tallies splits from

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Chris, On Sat, September 4, 2021 8:36 am, Christopher Lam wrote: > I agree that if an account reconciliation is done periodically correctly > every time, then it works well. If an old reconciled split is unreconciled > and we need to re-reconcile a previous reconciliation date, then the code >

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Christopher Lam
I agree that if an account reconciliation is done periodically correctly every time, then it works well. If an old reconciled split is unreconciled and we need to re-reconcile a previous reconciliation date, then the code falls apart. It may be an idea to allow batch unreconciliation of all

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-04 Thread Borden via gnucash-user
> The starting balance is computed from all the reconciled transactions "to > date". It *can* be safe to ignore the starting balance if, for example, a > transaction became unreconciled. For example, let's say you reconcile > from some starting balance X to a final balance of $1000. Then you

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-02 Thread David Carlson
s.) Where is Gnu Cash pulling the starting balance > from in the opening window? Can it be adjusted? > > Paul > > -Original Message- > From: Derek Atkins > Sent: September 2, 2021 10:42 AM > To: Paul Warthe > Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GN

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-02 Thread Derek Atkins
corrected one, but that > is part of the process.) Where is Gnu Cash pulling the starting balance > from in the opening window? Can it be adjusted? > > Paul > > -Original Message- > From: Derek Atkins > Sent: September 2, 2021 10:42 AM > To: Paul Warthe >

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-02 Thread Paul Warthe
of the process.) Where is Gnu Cash pulling the starting balance from in the opening window? Can it be adjusted? Paul -Original Message- From: Derek Atkins Sent: September 2, 2021 10:42 AM To: Paul Warthe Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

Re: [GNC] Redo account reconciliations

2021-09-02 Thread Derek Atkins
In GnuCash, reconciliation is always "from the beginning of time".. So if you reconcile an account at August 31, 2021, that will "force" you to reconcile all transactions prior to that date. So It's not clear exactly what you mean by "go back and re-reconcile." If you unrecocile a