Hi David,

Am 11.04.20 um 05:27 schrieb D. via gnucash-devel:
> Looking this over, it seems to me that your goals could only be achieved by 
> adding a statement date data element to each transaction, which would tie 
> that transaction to a specific statement. This field would have much more 
> limited purpose and modification avenues. It would also help with generation 
> of reconciliation reports. The existing reconciliation date field would then 
> be freer to be considered a last-edited date, which might have benefits in 
> other ways-- for example, one might be able to identify a transaction in a 
> reconciliation set that has a significantly different last edited date. Or a 
> user could be notified in the popup when they change the value of a 
> reconciled split that they should revisit the mm-dd-yyyy reconciliation to be 
> sure that their books are still accurate. 

I like the idea of a last-edited date for another purpose: German law
and probably others forbid editing once entered transactions. You have
to void and reenter the transaction. A compare between the date_posted
and the last-edit date would help autitors to verify that the rule was
applied.

Regards
Frank
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