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[Leonardo Pistone <leonardo.pistone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,
usually in OpenERP when you read "reconciliation" it is about matching
payments to invoices (more precisely, matching journal items in
payable/receivable accounts together).
Leonardo


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Phil Frost <indigo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Problem:
>
> I've just received a monthly statement from the bank, and I want to be
> sure I did not forget to add any entries, and that the bank did not make
> any wrong entries.
>
> I'm a bit confused by the overloading of the term "reconcile" in the
> interface and the documentation. In some places, it seems to refer to
> matching payments to invoices -- that's not the kind of reconciliation I'm
> seeking.
>
> I thought maybe Accounting -> Periodic Processing -> Reconciliation ->
> Manual Reconciliation was the place to look, but that always says "No
> journal items found". I have an asset account representing the checking
> account, and "allow reconciliation" is checked. There is a journal for that
> account, and when I register a payment for an invoice I select that journal
> for the payment method. An unposted journal entry is created crediting A/R
> and debiting the checking account, and I can manually post it (is this
> necessary?), but still the manual reconciliation says "no journal items
> found".
>
> Is there something I'm missing, or am I looking in the wrong place?
>
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