: 'Jim DeLaHunt' ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Request for Automatic Reconciliation Function
GnuCash already provides the nearest thing resembling "automatic" reconciliation. It
requires periodically downloading and importing account activity from the bank to mark which
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To: 'Jim DeLaHunt' ; gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Request for Automatic Reconciliation Function
GnuCash already provides the nearest
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Subject: Re: [GNC] Request for Automatic Reconciliation Function
Bite Gao:
Thank you for continuing this conversation. I am glad to have your ideas in
this discussion.
While I think I understand what feature you are asking for, I do see some
difficulties with it.
Bite Gao,
Jim mentions the import matcher, and I reiterate here to emphasize that GnuCash
provides most of what you're asking, but places it in the import process,
rather than in reconciliation. A user can match incoming entries to existing
ones. They can also set the reconcile flag to "C" for
Bite Gao:
Thank you for continuing this conversation. I am glad to have your ideas
in this discussion.
While I think I understand what feature you are asking for, I do see
some difficulties with it. For example, you say:
On 2023-01-06 17:22, Bite Gao wrote:
…For each split record in the
You are asking for the impossible. It is not possible to predict all
the possible ways a computer program could make a mistake. It's just
not knowable.
On 2023-01-06 17:22, Bite Gao wrote:
GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:
...
Personally, I do not found that how computer program
GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:
Hello! While you pinpoint out the possibility of a mistake in
automated process, it did not eliminate the meaning of the automatic
reconciliation.
What an automatic reconciliation does is: the program concatenates
the transaction's date, check number and
Bite Gao:
Thank you for your feature request. And thank you for your second
message, where you make your request clear enough that I finally
understand it.
What I think you are requesting is that GnuCash's Reconciliation command
add an option for GnuCash to read in a data file supplied by
hi
On 1/6/23 09:16, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
Call me old school, but I want to check that the bank and I agree on the
accounting, and I consider me to be the best judge of my transaction history.
isn't that the whole *point* of reconciliation after all ... ?
(so i would call you
I agree with Adrien here fully, as well as with other points made elsewhere in
the thread.
As an open source software package, it's certainly possible for *someone* to
write code for an automatic reconciliation, but I certainly wouldn't want the
feature myself. Call me old school, but I want
I understand your explanation, but if you aren't checking and verifying
every transaction, how do you ever discover when the automated process
makes a mistake?
Reconciliation was invented long before computers, but I appreciate that
the process demands one to slow down, take your time, and
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 01:50, Bite Gao wrote:
> GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:
Hello! While you have mentioned the requirement of human intervene in
the reconciliation process, I do not see it contradicts with the presence
of automatically reconciliation system.
Yours,
>
> Bite,
Bite,
Another difficulty is that most banks currently provide statements (as distinct
from OFX or CSV transactional records which are not necessarily certified by the
bank to be correct) in a pdf form and not a digital form.
These are not easily imported into GnuCash for use in reconciliation
GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:
Hello! While you have mentioned the requirement of human intervene in the
reconciliation process, I do not see it contradicts with the presence of
automatically reconciliation system.
In a reconcile process, the accountant check the record in the account
On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 15:42:41 +0800
Bite Gao wrote:
>GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:
> Hello! While your software has done many tedious jobs previously
>done by
>accountants manually, it cannot automatically reconcile its
> accounting data
>to the bank statement in its
GnuCash Developers and Maintainers:
Hello! While your software has done many tedious jobs previously
done by
accountants manually, it cannot automatically reconcile its accounting
data
to the bank statement in its digital form. In my opinion, the
automation of
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