[GNC] how do I get different dates for balancing transactions when transferring amounts between two accounts

[RL]

Adrian

I can see where using the check number might be reasonable. Just not
what I have done so far and it looked "strange". I'll try it, since
having the check number of a deposit front/center is all to the good. I
think my original feeling was that I wanted to quickly, at a glance,
tell which "direction" the funds were going - and unfortunately I'm not
used to checking to the right to see which column the funds appear in.
TBD, I guess.

However, the date _is_ a problem because I want to unequivocally match
any transaction in GC with the line on the statement the bank provides.

Thanks for you comment. So more experienced users regularly enter the
check number on both sides of the transaction?


Rufus



On 05/14/2018 10:42 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> Rufus,
> 
> I don’t see why a check number on a deposit line doesn’t seem proper if in fact, you are depositing a check. In this case, it happens to be a check you wrote, but it IS from another account, so from the perspective of the receiving account, it’s no different than the case where someone else wrote you a check and you deposited it. And if you have multiple such checks to deposit for some reason (say you’re transferring funds from more than one account) then you can put the check numbers in the action field for each split.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On May 14, 2018, at 5:19 PM, RL <rlaggren at mail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have two bank accounts on which I regularly write checks to transfer
>> amounts between them. Downloading the ofx files from each bank, I have,
>> for those checks, transactions with different (correct) dates in each GC
>> account which represent the left and right side of the same accounting
>> transaction. For purposes of reconciling against the bank statements,
>> these dates must remain different in their separate GC accounts, even
>> though they are opposite ends of the same accounting transaction.
>>
>> GC wants to make the balancing transactions in each GC account one
>> single identical transaction (except for the proper credit/debit column,
>> depending on which account I'm looking at). I don't see how to work this
>> and maintain both accounts true to their source, the bank transactions.
>> The date is also important because at times it matters when a check was
>> cashed and when it was payed by the originating bank; there needs to be
>> an accurate record of this. An additional, maybe lesser, problem is that
>> GC's methodology makes the transaction number the same in each GC
>> account. Since the trans number is one of the most easily noted text
>> fields, I have been using it to quickly/easily identify "deposits" - but
>> this won't work if I want to retain the check number in that field (very
>> important). Also, a check number on a deposit line doesn't seem
>> particularly proper.
>>
>> How is this handled in GC?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rufus
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