Quick question about ofx auto-reconcile

[Phillip Shelton]

This is what I use a seperate account for.=20=20
-On the 1st I enter a transaction for my cheque in my `cheque written' acco=
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-On the 10th a transaction is entered for the 5th to my `bank account'. I p=
oint the other half of this transaction to `cheque written'.

-----Original Message-----
> > Working on the GUI, a came up with this little question:
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> > Suppose you just downloaded a transaction from your bank.  A check for=
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> > example.
> > -You write it on august 1st, end enter it into gnucash
> > -The check clears on the 5th
> > -On the tenth, you download your bank statement, and auto-reconcile tha=
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> > transaction.
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> > Should the reconciled date be the 5th or the 10th?
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> You did the reconciliation on the 10th, so that is the "reconciled date."
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> According to the bank, it cleared on the 5th, so that could be an _additi=
onal_=20
> date field to associate with the transaction, but that's not a "reconcile=
d"=20
> date.

Should we add a "cleared date" field to Splits?

-derek
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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