On 7/1/14 6:16 PM, Martin Blais wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Simon Michael
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
- There can be more than two dates of interest in real-world
transactions.
Do you have a common real-world use case?
My first example, eg - I made a transfer between banks using online UI
over the weekend, it cleared in one bank a few days later, and in the
other bank a few days after that.
Do any of these do anything other than change the date the posting is
applied to the balance of their corresponding account when enabled (via
--aux-date, --effective-date or --date2)?
No - that's what they all do, despite the varied spelling and syntax.
Is HLedger also subject to the "amounts in limbo" problem I describe in
my doc, or are you splitting the transaction into multiple balancing
ones as I suggest?
Yes it is. I suspect accountants don't sweat much over this, they just
draw up balance sheets at well-defined times and business activity
naturally slows down around then, or if needed they adjust dates until
all transactions fall into a single accounting period.
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