On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 12:22 PM Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote:
> * 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. > It's more like transaction date vs. settlement date, + there's the fact that the restauranteur might take their sweet time to process that credit card, a few days later. > > > 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. That's only really elegant inasmuch as you have the patience to put both of the dates on. Even with support for it, I probably still wouldn't bother... > 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/ > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20190119172225.np6jfzfatychbs3d%40jirafa.cyrius.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhN7K20UWPQfJrWCrVraY-YOar7dkXT5%2BMszfb0M4as_Xw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
