Re: [kmymoney2-developer]Feature Request to Simply Reconciliation

> On Sunday 21 Jun 2009, you wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 June 2009 18:24:26 Peter Hargreaves wrote:
> > > On Sunday 21 Jun 2009, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> > > > > 2) On the reconcilliation Statement Information page:
> > > > > ?a) Set the ending balance to balance at statement end date.
> > > > > ?b) If end balance projection is good then an option to 'clear to
> > > > > end balance'.
> > > >
> > > > a) I think that is what is happening already (at least for me)
> > >
> > > Are you sure? Or is it the start balance that you are thinking of?
> >
> > No. Please see below.
> >
> > > > b) Since the end balance projection takes all cleared transactions
> > > > into account, I don't see how this can work
> > >
> > > It's the start balance that is calculated from all the cleared
> > > transactions, isn't it?
>
> Oops, I didn't mean cleared, I meant reconciled - so we do agree, I think.
> Sorry for confusion.
>
> > The start balance is either taken from the last reconciliation or is
> > calculated based upon all reconciled transactions up to the statement
> > date. I would have to look up the exact algorithm in the code. The ending
> > balance is calculated by summing up all reconciled *and* cleared
> > transactions up to the statement date.
> >
> > > The end balance projection would include non-cleared transactions up to
> > > the statement end date.
> > >
> > > The option I'm suggesting would offer to clear these non-cleared
> > > transactions, but only if the projected end balance is correct.
> >
> > As the ending balance today takes those already into account there's no
> > need to do that.
> >
> > But I think I understand what you're trying to achieve: you don't clear
> > the transactions before you receive the statement. Now you want to clear
> > them in one chunk, hence the projection using the non-cleared
> > transactions and the auto clear function. Something we could think about,
> > but certainly post 1.0
> >
> > In the meantime I suggest to take a look at
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2726446&group_id=4708&ati
> >d= 354708
>
> Yes, yes, this is what I meant.
>
> > and add to it if there's something missing.
>
> And the thing I wanted to add is the clearing in one chunk, if the
> projected end balance is correct.