On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 15:42:41 +0800 Bite Gao <redfrog2...@outlook.com> 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 digital form. In my opinion, the > automation of > reconciliation is not only efficient but also accurate since it > reduces human-caused errors. > I would appreciate you a lot if you could add an > auto-reconciliation function to your software. > Yours, > Bite Gao > Jan 4th, 2023 Bite, this is an interesting idea, but to me reconciliation requires human input. While I manually reconcile, I have to attend to pending transactions, for example a payment made on a card which never is taken from the bank account. At what time do I take that from the active list? Where will I put the the never finished transactions? A number which is different in my list to the banks? How will I check for the correct number? When do I contact the bank? They are human decisions, different in each jurisdiction. They are the reason I reconcile - not to have my numbers the same as the banks, but to see the discrepancies and decide on an action. Could you please describe more what you want from automated reconciliation? Your statement about "human-caused errors" implies that reconciliation introduces errors rather than highlights them. Liz _______________________________________________ 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.
