Re: What's the best way to model "in-flight" transactions?

2017-09-29 Thread replicon
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Re: What's the best way to model "in-flight" transactions?

2017-09-28 Thread Alton Brantley
The way I handle this is to create a subaccount of my bank accounts labeled “Bank1:ACH” for automated clearing house. Then the transactions look like this (where Db means debit, Cr means credit, and assuming credit card is paid $1000.00) Bank1 is an account of type bank (an asset), ACH is a

Re: What's the best way to model "in-flight" transactions?

2017-09-28 Thread Mark Phillips
One way to think about the float is to, well, not think about it. When you pay you credit card company with bill pay, those funds are "gone" in the sense you really should not use them for another transaction. So, enter the transaction as you have been doing. Your gnucash bank balance will be

Re: What's the best way to model "in-flight" transactions?

2017-09-28 Thread David Carlson
I think the answer is "What works best for you." When most of our bank account transactions were checks (cheques in many countries) we entered each check by date and number in the checkbook register. When the bank statement came we compared it to our register, checking off each one that appeared

Re: What's the best way to model "in-flight" transactions?

2017-09-28 Thread Buddha Buck
Remember that your books are supposed to reflect your view of the transactions you are making, not those of other entities. Instead of a credit card payment or an account-to-account transfer, consider the more traditional case of paying a vendor with a check. On January 1st, you buy a CD from a

What's the best way to model "in-flight" transactions?

2017-09-28 Thread replicon
Hey all, I've been using/loving GNUCash for almost a year now, and one thing I'm sure I'm doing wrong is how I'm showing credit card payments. For paying credit card bills, I just use my bank's bill pay. The bank is different from the credit card provider, so there's some "in-flight" time for