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Reconcile should remember and apply start/end dates automatically (46 Legacy Votes)

Most account statements have the same end day of the month, every month. For example a credit card statement may always be from the 11th (of month A) to the 10th (of month
. A bank statement typically runs from the 1st of the month to the last day of the month.
So why can't the reconcile function remember and apply this? Why do I have to use the calendar, go back a month, select the last day... EVERY time I reconcile?
Please update the reconcile function to a bit smarter with the start/end dates.
Thanks.

So why can't the reconcile function remember and apply this? Why do I have to use the calendar, go back a month, select the last day... EVERY time I reconcile?
Please update the reconcile function to a bit smarter with the start/end dates.
Thanks.
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At first, 2002 lost the autofilling of the end date, but by pressing the CMD-] key combo in the End Date field, it advanced the date to one month from the start date and if pressing + or - in a blank field advanced the date to the start date + one month +/- 1 day at a time (in other words, the starting point in the end field was always assumed to be the start date + one month).
Then somewhere after that, QM2007 or earlier lost that logic and that no longer works (I jumped from 2002 to 2007, so not sure when it happened).
I do not know if this makes sense for reconciling to an online balance but it does make a lot of sense for reconciling to a statement.
Some statements have a fixed date every month, others have a variable date that changes by only a few days at most.
So bottom line, I see 2 simple approaches (at least for reconciling to a statement):
- one is always auto-populated the end date by taking the start date and adding one month. In most cases it will be accurate. For those it is not, it becomes as simple as press + or - in the field to advance the day or two it is off.
- do not auto-populate the end date but simply assume the end date is start date + one month and any shortcut key presses for date changes, (CMD-] or CMD-(+/-), etc), adjusts the date from that starting point.
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End date should be new start date +1 month - 1 day (EG: 04/12 to 05/11)
For dates where the start date is the 1st, end date should be set to the last day of the same month.
This is not hard to do. 30 minutes of programming at most for a competent programmer.
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