On 28 Feb 2012, at 04:06, John Wiegley wrote: > It has long been a point of confusion over what "actual" vs. "effective" dates > are. For example: > > 2012-02-28=2012-03-01 KFC > Expenses:Food $10.00 > Assets:Cash > > In this example, I always considered the first date as the "actual" date when > I bought the chicken, and the second date as when it become "effective" in my > account.
Now that is interesting. I had been using the actual date as the date it showed up on the account, ie the transaction date, and the effective date as the date at which I would like the transaction to be effective for budgeting purposes. This is partly owing to me being on 2.x and so I do not have access to metadata. I'll be upgrading soon, and will start taking advantage of this posting metadata that was brought up in later replies. -Kamal
