Re: Help with adjustment transaction

2024-05-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 08:48:04AM +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote: > > 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

Re: Help with adjustment transaction

2024-05-17 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 06:55:12AM -0700, oliver wrote: > I am afraid you are crediting me with more intelligence than I actually > have. > I find balance assertion to be very difficult to understand and the few > lines in the docs don't make it > any easier. > Follwoing your example, I enter: >

Re: Help with adjustment transaction

2024-05-17 Thread oliver
I am afraid you are crediting me with more intelligence than I actually have. I find balance assertion to be very difficult to understand and the few lines in the docs don't make it any easier. Follwoing your example, I enter: 2024/04/08 * Balance Assertion:Ally_Savings Assets:Ally_Savings

Re: Help with adjustment transaction

2024-05-17 Thread Alan Schmitt
Hello, On 2024-05-16 22:57, "Robin H. Johnson" 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