Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-30 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/30/2023 6:45 AM, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: Exactly my experience, and why I asked, despite previous experience. I am now at the stage where my Gnucash file is y but my bank account is not Further searching needed, Barry BESIDES actual errors, a difference between

Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-30 Thread Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user
Exactly my experience, and why I asked, despite previous experience. I am now at the stage where my Gnucash file is y but my bank account is not Further searching needed, Barry On 30/10/2023 11:24, Liz wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:21:20 +0200 Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote:

Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-30 Thread Liz
On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:21:20 +0200 Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi, > > After my previous experiences on here, I am almost afraid to ask a > new question, but, here goes. > > When Reconciling, what exactly is the effect of introducing a "new > balance entry" as is available as the

Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-27 Thread Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user
Thank you very much for the comprehensive reply. I didn't think of CC, but that is very useful. It helps when presentation of CC records are late. I did find that balancing amounts were in the reconcile, usually very small amounts, but I didn't recall setting them. For the previous answers,

Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-26 Thread Jediator
This feature is useful when doing recon of a credit card account. After a successful recon run, the new balance window will popup up with the balance amount preset so you can issue a credit card payment from a bank account.  Certainly you can cancel the action (which doesn't affect your recon

Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-25 Thread David H
David, He means after you click OK on the initial Reconcile popup there is a further popup on which the first icon is "Add a new balancing entry to the account" - this is active only if your Ending Balance is not equal to the Reconciled Balance. if you click this icon it adds a txn for the

Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-25 Thread David Carlson
What is missing from comments so far is, if I understand correctly, the intended purpose of that button is for when a user wants to correct the reconciled balance of the account for that date without trying to find and correct previous errors, this will create a transaction to complete the

Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-25 Thread David Cousens
Finbar, Not sure what you mean by new balance entry. The reconcile dialogue comes up requesting the following: Statement date - enter the closing date on the statement from the bank. It will supply a closing date based on the statement date at which the last reconciliation was doneand usually

Re: [GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-25 Thread Christopher Lam
It's poorly documented. https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563565 ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please

[GNC] New Balance entry

2023-10-25 Thread Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user
Hi, After my previous experiences on here, I am almost afraid to ask a new question, but, here goes. When Reconciling, what exactly is the effect of introducing a "new balance entry" as is available as the first option on the bar. There is nothing under the help that I could identify.