* TF <[email protected]> [2019-01-19 08:22]:
> Thanks. I was afraid of that. But the first month shows me at least
> part of what's probably going on: The PDF credit-card statement
> lists some transactions as, for example, Feb. 3 -- but the
> downloaded transactions show it as Feb. 2.

Sometimes the date you purchase something and the date when it shows
up on your account are different.  It's annoying that the CSV and PDF
don't agree.  Some of my banks CSV contain both dates.  But
unfortunately we live in an imperfect world and there will be
differences in the CSV and PDF sometimes.

> I assume the only solution is to manually change the downloaded-transaction
> date to match the PDF statement?

Either that or you can add a transaction to make an adjustment to move
it by a day to match the PDF (but imho that's even more messy).

> Or is there a more elegant solution?

There's a proposal for beancount to allow dates on postings itself,
i.e. you could say this transaction is on this date but Assets:Bank
(or Liabilities:Credit card in your card) is another date.  This way,
you could add the date from the PDF as a posting / settlement date.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x0qqWGRHi02ef-FtUW172SHkdJ8quOZD-Xli7r4Nl_k/

Unfortunately, the proposal hasn't been implemented yet, so this is
only a possible future solution. ;)

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
https://www.cyrius.com/

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