Managing dates for each transaction : date of record in the register, date of reconciliation, date of bank record in register, date of bank value

[Raphaël Maville]

Well, it seems that gnucash already holds three dates: 
Post date
Entered date
Reconcile date

If it have been possible to use the reconcile date else...
I mean, without writing in the date of use of the reconcile window (that
is what it is now), but for the date of bank value: to me, there is more
sense to write in my book when the bank knows the transactions, instead
of when I have opened (and used) the reconcile window.

perhaps, I am wrong, I do not know.



Le mardi 09 décembre 2008 à 13:04 -0500, Derek Atkins a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Raphaël Maville <rafmav at wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > I would like to know if it is possible to manage dates in GnuCash:
> >
> > What I already know:
> > - there is the date of the transaction in the registers,
> > - the date of reconciliation is added for each transaction when
> > reconciling, if I understood well...
> >
> > What I would like to have:
> > - date of bank record in the statements,
> > - most important, the date of bank value in the statements! this can
> > differ from the date of bank record, a few days of difference, and they
> > can record the transaction before or after it!
> >
> > The date of bank value added to each transaction, could complete (or
> > replace) the reconcile "n" "p" "c" information for each transaction.
> >
> > with this, It would be possible to calculate the interests (debtors or
> > creditors) like the bank does, and control the owe or own amounts.
> 
> Unfortunately there isn't enough space in the current data structures
> to do what you want.  There are three dates stored with a transaction:
> 
> Post Date
> Entered Date
> Reconciled Date
> 
> Note that the first two are stored with the TRANSACTION, the
> last is stored with each SPLIT in the transaction.  The first one
> is what appears in the register.  The second is not user-settable.
> The last is based on the date you set in the Reconcile Dialog.
> 
> There is no additional space in the current data structures to
> add additional date information, but one could write code to
> extend the objects using the KVPs.  However this is a -devel
> discussion so if you are interested in writing code to do this
> you should move the discussion there.
> 
> > Thanks
> 
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> 
> -derek
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