Hello, On 2024-05-16 22:57, "Robin H. Johnson" <[email protected]> writes:
> Our bank statements give us the opening and closing balances for each > statement, and I enter those as an assertion of the balance. > > If I have an error somewhere before that, such as a missing transaction, > or a typo; the assertion flags that something is wrong. > > If your bank statements provide a known balance after each transaction, > you can enter that: > > 2009/04/30 * Interest Earned: AccountName > Assets:Bank:AccountName $ 16.14 = $ 19,016.25 > Income:Interest:AccountName > > If your bank statements provide an opening or closing balance to the > statement, > you can use that: > > 2023/06/30 * Balance Assertion: AccountName > Assets:Bank:AccountName $ 0.00 = $ 52,289.96 This looks very useful, but I have trouble understanding how it works with past transactions that are not yet reconciled (i.e., not part of the balance, yet present and before in the file). Are these transactions ignored? If so, the balance will break once they are reconciled in the future, won’t it? Best, Alan -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/m2ikzdx7bv.fsf%40mac-03220211.irisa.fr.
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