> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:07:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Paul Jewell <[email protected]>
>
> However, I have a challenge which I am hoping someone can help me with. I
> have an account in the UK, and also one in Brussels. I transfer funds from
> one to the other (via Transferwise), and enter a transaction such as:
>
> 2017/07/07 Funds Transfer
> Assets:ING:Current Account -1000 EUR
> Assets:Lloyds:Current Account 850 GBP
>
> The problem I have is the clearing date on the statements is different for
> the two banks. Is there anyway I can have a different date against each
> line?
Another way to approach this is to never write transactions that touch
the externally managed accounts, except for ones automatically
generated by a CSV or QFX import from the financial institution.
Instead, in your ledger, identify the transfers with separate accounts
(e.g., by a txn id in the receipt that will appear in the statement),
and write down the date when you initiate the transfer:
account Assets:Lloyds:Transfers:0123456789
account Liabilities:ING:Transfers:9876543210
2017/07/07 Funds transfer
Assets:Lloyds:Transfer:0123456789 850 GBP
Liabilities:ING:Transfer:9876543210 -1000 EUR
Then you ingest the ING statement into a transaction acknowledging
receipt of the funds:
2017/07/14 Lloyd's statement
Liabilities:ING:Transfer:9876543210 1000 EUR = 0 EUR
Assets:ING:Current Account -1000 EUR
And likewise the Lloyd's statement:
2017/07/12 Lloyd's statement
Assets:Lloyds:Current Account 850 GBP
Assets:Lloyds:Transfer:0123456789 -850 GBP = 0 GBP
This lets you also quickly find the outstanding transfers that have
yet to be acknowledged by the financial institutions just by examining
`ledger balance :transfer:'.
A similar approach to recording cheques and payments is described
here:
https://mumble.net/~campbell/2017/02/26/ledger/HOWTO-reconcile-cheques
https://mumble.net/~campbell/2017/02/26/ledger/HOWTO-reconcile-payments
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