Statement dates

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Hello Andrea,

am 13.2. meintest Du:

> Suppose I pay with a card a purchase I make today, but the bank records the
> transaction under a different date (say, two days later). If I want to
> ensure consistency with the monthly statement, I have to use the bank date,
> but by the time I get the statement I've already filed all the transactions
> under the original purchase' dates.

http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/xacc-apar.html

You have to make 2 entries:
1., purchase date	expense account / accounts payable
2., pay date		accounts payable / cash account	

That means
a. purchase and pay are dated correctly
b. therefore you have an accrual basis
c. accounts payable are cleared
 
HTH
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