Entry Date versus Transaction Date

[Travis Hughes]

I would not use the date from an accounting perspective. The transactions
are typically entered in batches as opposed to continuously over time and I
am interested in determining the batch entry dates.


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

> thughes wrote:
>
>  Does GNUCash capture the date a transaction was entered into the file? Is
>> is
>> possible to search, or report on this date?
>>
>>
> Explain what you are trying to do. What use do you plan to make of this
> date? It doesn't have a bookkeeping meaning. While each transaction  has an
> "effective date" (the date of the transaction)  when the transaction is
> actually entered is pretty much irrelevant (as long as prior to the date of
> any report intended to include this transaction is run -- again,
> irrespective of the effective date(s) of that report).
>
> That being said, in my day I did things like designing and writing
> programs that used the entry dates of activity. But those were MANAGEMENT
> reports. For example, how many transactions did each clerical worker
> process in a month, etc. Not part of the bookkeeping itself but about the
> process of keeping the books. Not really the same thing.
>
> Michael
>