Martin, is allowing for different posting dates for different legs of a transaction natively in beancount something you would consider for v3?
It is somewhat of an annoyance that some transactions post to different accounts on different dates in the real world (credit card payments sent by billpay from checking account, paper checks mailed from health/dependent care reimbursement accounts and later deposited, etc.). In beancount v2, this means you may have to 'lie' to reconcile accounts with conflicting balance assertions when a transaction needs to be on one side of a balance boundary in one account and not in the other because a given transaction can only have one date. Shifting the dates one way or the other can work around this, but can also involve shifting the dates of unrelated transactions which also need to be on one side or the other of the balance assertion. I'm attempting to update my finances more frequently to turn it from a monthly chore to to a quick daily habit (with a dose of automation for getting the transactions to the point where I can review them), and I'm running into issues like this more frequently. It also feels a little wrong to me to be keeping a record of my finances that differs from my banks' views of what happened. -Aaron p.s. To be clear, I'm guessing I can probably write a plugin to do this, I'm just wondering if it's something fundamental enough that you would consider putting support for it into the core of beancount. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/9b869b13-7a10-4aae-a77f-85193a678874n%40googlegroups.com.
