invoice date vs bank transaction date

[Parker Jones]

> From: edodd at billiau.net
> Parker Jones <zoubidoo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Changing the transaction date is not a clean option as it would knock
> > all the running balances on the bank account out and make reconciling
> > difficult.
> 
> Why??
> Reconciling is independent of date.
The end-of-year totals remain unchanged, sure, but the running balances won't necessarily match bank statements during the year and I'd rather avoid that source of confusion.  The books really should match the bank statements.