On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 01:50, Bite Gao <redfrog2...@outlook.com> 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, Gao > Jan 6th, 2023 I think this is a very tricky AI problem, and possibly the subject of a PhD research degree. There seems to be two aspects to this 1) Given a set of data from a bank, and a set of transactions entered into GnuCash, is there any possibility that they could reconcile? Automatically determining if reconciliation is impossible is probably not too tricky. It might be computationally demanding, but a brute force method of trying every possible combination of debits and credits could determine if reconciliation is possible in one or more ways, or totally impossible. No artificial intelligence is required - just brute force work. Some not particularly difficult work could determine if reconciliation is impossible without much work at all. For example, if a bank account has risen by more than the sum of all the debts, ignoring all the credits. 2) Much more tricky would to determine if any possible combination of matches is accurate. I think that would be a very tricky indeed. Recently I had in my GnuCash account a payment to Mouser £113. The invoice from Mouser said £113. A line in the bank statement showed £113, and said Mouser on the same line. I reconciled that. Only later when I looked at the PayPal account did I see that Mouser had been paid with PayPal. So the money didn’t move directly from my bank account to Mouser, but via another account I have. I suspect any automatic procedure would struggle with issues like these unless all banks and similar places indicate information in a well documented and internationally accepted manner. Dave > -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United Kingdom _______________________________________________ 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 remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
