[GNC] Transfer Dates

[David H]

Ah my bad, I thought you'd just replied to me and wouldn't get more advice
from the list especially from the user's that do use the importers :-)

Cheers David H.


On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 10:10 am, <viking2ev at san.rr.com> wrote:

> I am sorry David. I hit “reply” when I should have hit “reply all”, right?
> I sent the previous mail to the group as well.
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> I am importing because I am trying to create a new GnuCash file with a lot
> of transactions from different financial institutions; all of them are in
> CSV (xls). When done, I don’t intend to import anymore.
>
> I am typically only going between two different banks. Most of the
> transactions are between Bank1 and another bank, e.g. Bank2, Bank3, Bank4
> etc. In that sense a “Funds in Transit account” may work because most
> (but not all) transfers are from/to Bank1. In any case, I would still need
> to force it to not match when importing Bank1.
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> *From:* David H [mailto:hellvee at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 05 June, 2022 16:58
> *To:* viking2ev at san.rr.com; Gnucash Users
> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Transfer Dates
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> Mate, keep it on-list so others can offer suggestions/chip in where
> relevant. Case in point I NEVER import anything so I can't comment on how
> the matching works, others that do obviously can. I ALWAYS manually enter
> txns that way when I reconcile I'm not reconciling the bank's txns against
> the bank's statement :-)
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> You have other options - as you say add something to the description
> column to say where the funds are going to in the long run - you didn't say
> you were transferring between more than 2 banks, so you're going from bank1
> to bank2 to bank3 sort of ?
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> Forget Quicken, you left it for a reason :-)
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> Cheers David H.
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> On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 07:55, <viking2ev at san.rr.com> wrote:
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> If I use an intermediary “Funds in Transit account”, wouldn’t I run into
> the same issue when importing bank1? It would match the original transfer
> date of bank2 in the “Funds in Transit account”. I would need to force it
> to not match.
>
> A disadvantage of using a “Funds in Transit account” is that I wouldn’t
> easily see where the money was going (I am transferring between more than
> two banks).
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> I was hoping that there was maybe some way of using another date column in
> GnuCash (like having a transaction and a post date).
>
> If I recall correctly, Quicken actually modified the dates when importing
> so that each bank showed the correct dates.
>
> I guess that I could modify the CSV file of bank1 to include the bank1
> dates in the description….
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> *From:* David H [mailto:hellvee at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 05 June, 2022 14:15
> *To:* viking2ev at san.rr.com
> *Cc:* Gnucash Users
> *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Transfer Dates
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> If you want to be exact you probably need to use something like a "Funds
> in Transit" account - transfer from bank2 to funds in transit on date 1 and
> then transfer from funds in transit to bank1 3-5 days later.  Effectively
> you'd be splitting each transaction into 2 transactions.
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> Cheers David H.
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> On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 07:03, <viking2ev at san.rr.com> wrote:
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> I have transferred money back and forth between bank1 and bank2.
> 1. I first imported my transactions from bank2.
>
> 2. I then imported my transactions from bank1.
>
> The transfers between the accounts are matched and are therefore not
> imported to bank1 (as expected).
>
> However, the dates of the transfers are correct in bank2 but incorrect in
> bank1 because there is a 3-5 days delay for the transfers (and bank2 was
> imported before bank1).
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> Is there any way to log the correct dates in bank1 (while also retaining
> the
> correct date in bank2)?
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