Lots of strange things to figure out indeed, and to some extent, one of the reasons for the method is to bring those up to your attention, ideally soon thereafter.
I think if the error is not reflected in the balance I'd probably just comment it out and move on. If it is, like you I'd call - I'm one of those annoying people calling financial institutions with strange and sometimes too detailed questions - or find a way to categorize to a special account. On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 4:39 PM fin <f...@anthive.com> wrote: > This is strange to me for sure. > > I have printed statements and pdf files and then I have > a csv file which has a transaction on a specific date but > that does not appear on either the statement or the pdf > version. > > Of course I don't know how to account for this since I'm > rather new to the whole idea of double entry accounting > but also I now have to call up the financial institution > and ask them for more details as to why it is there and > what it means and perhaps they can give me a clue as to > where it came from or if it is just a mistake that happened > later and was somehow fixed some other place and I can > ignore it (likely since it was a long enough time ago > that I won't get a correction but also it was long enough > ago I have no memory of that time frame or if I deposited > the money or what). > > Anyways, it was an odd amount of money for me to deposit > if I really did that (I have no receipt for it). > > So what do you do? Set up a special Error Account? > > For the moment I put a note on it and also commented it > out so it doesn't mess up any further attempts at comparing > the statements to the electronic versions of things and > that is what I'm doing now working through all the > transactions and making sure they're properly classified. > > The funny thing is, had I not dumped out the CSV file > to being with I'd have never seen this at all and the fact > that I didn't have a problem with the statement at the > time I got it in the mail also likely means this is an > error that happened later and one not consequential to me. > I'm still going to call them next week because I have to > change a few things anyways so it will be a part of that > conversation. Plus it lets them know I'm watching them a > bit more closely now... ;) > > I have a few other errors from long ago that were never > tracked down (off by a penny, sometimes a 5 dollar mistake, > once a 10 dollar but nothing like the above (which is > several hundred). > > Any similar experiences by anyone else here? Did you > ever find such a thing stuck in your account after the > fact and no mention to you what happened? Or? > > > Fin > > -- > 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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20kb9j-ubd.ln1%40anthive.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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhNu5E4wuKF4%2BRDr-EqAmEj5JDtn%3DQ%2Bdrjw%3DtLSH50NBCg%40mail.gmail.com.
