[GNC] Kind of a Philosophical Question about Transaction Dates

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On Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 at 02:51, Peter West via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> I suppose that for affected accounts, you could create a sub-account “Pending”
> and post the initial transaction to the instantaneous account and to the Pending
> sub-account of of the “slow” account. The balance on the slow account will show
> you what the immediate future holds for that account. When the pending amount
> reaches the slow account, post between the Pending and actual accounts.
> The balance will not change, and you will have a record of the actual process.
> The reconciliation process would have to ignore the Pending sub-account values.
> I don’t know whether it will do this.

Would pretty much suggest the same, but consider having just the
one intermediate account, named say,

In Transit

outside of the two - source and destination - accounts.

I'd also suggest that there is no need to wait until the monies
arrive in the destination account to post that part of the
transaction. You can always change the date once it's arrived.

Perhaps create the "In Transit" to "Slow" transaction with the
day after the "Fast" to "In Transit" date, so that it appears
below the "today line" in the Register.

For those of you old enough to have sent "cheques in the post",
this will seem like teaching granny to suck eggs!