If you want to be pedantic create a transfer account and make it two transactions, one to the transfer account, and one from it. Beancount doesn't support doing this automatically, but it's a small project one day that it will (mainly for credit card to bank transactions).
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:06 AM John Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > For the first time I’m having someone help me review my accounts for my > LLC and it’s raised a few questions I’ve never worried about. Especially > around dates for transactions that post at different times because of ACH > transfer times between to banks the date is different for each leg. > > Somehow I managed to do it for the first time such that the legs crossed > the calendar year (deducted from the first bank of 12/29/2022 posted at the > receiving bank of 1/3/2023. This was driving the person crazy because they > were reconciling and the dollars were off. But also transactions were > accounted for. > > How do y’all typically handle transactions that have different dates for > each leg? I’ve temporarily split the transaction into two and placed the > opposing legs in an account under equity. > > > > > -- > 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/6B999E76-347F-44BB-86DD-A7D95DC96B77%40gmail.com > . > -- 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/CAK21%2BhMArdkL1wbudPrJXAp%2B1FbY0GaupZDO4YNW%3DL%3DfSMmsCA%40mail.gmail.com.
