A bit tangential to the issue of reconciliation is that fundamentally IMV reconciliation means to marry up (aka reconcile) the physical periodic (monthly/quarterly/annually) bank statements *against* your own books which carry the canonical data which hopefully supports your financial activity.
Gnucash reconciliation only stores, for each reconciliation: - an account's last Reconciliation date - each split's reconciliation status n/c/y, - each split's reconciliation date (which is the same as the last Reconciliation date). It doesn't store other info such as: starting balance, statement number; and doesn't store the reconciled starting and ending balances. It *could* be transformed to store all these additional data: - statement ID number - statement's start and ending date - statement's start and ending balance - list of splits identified within the statement And would be somewhat more robust (ie you could ask gnucash to display the contents of the feb2014 statement), and we would potentially be able to re-reconcile a previous statement (e.g. I deleted an old reconciled split in error and wish to re-reconcile its statement) but this would require a complete backward-incompatible upgrade in the internal data schema, there doesn't seem to be a demand of it, nor manpower to implement it, and I think it's simply overkill. Thus the reconciliation is currently limited to the state that exists currently. E&OE On Mon, 13 Nov 2023, 11:21 pm Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user, < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hello, > > The recent discussion on reconciliation was helpful in trying to sort > out some anomalies I have. > > When I do the latest reconciliation of one of my accounts the opening > balance is 10,448.43 and gives me an amount of inbalance which is way off. > > Following the advice in the recent posts I tried working backwards to > see if I could find any errors. > > I got close to 0.00 from time to time and was satisfied enough to > consider a balancing entry, but was intrigued on where the 'error' might > have been. > > I set off to see where, but, in the course of my search, I tried to find > the number 10,443.43 in the account, as a baseline, but didn't find one. > > If I understand the process of reconciliation the number should be > somewhere in the account, should it not?? > > Just tell me I am barking up the wrong tree, if I am making an error. > > Finbar > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
