In microsoft.public.money, Ethan Solomita wrote:

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Your choices for a transfer are to select one date or the other, or
let each transfer be to/from an asset account that you set up for
the purpose. You can name that account "In transit", or whatever
else you like. This might be called a suspense account.
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In the case of credit cards, there are some other possibilities.
Here are two ways I like:

1. When you process the first transaction of the credit card
payment, set the category as a transfer to the other ( credit card
or bank account), or use the equivalent "SPECIAL Credit Card
Payment"
category. When you process the second transaction,Money should
match it. Be careful to not just Accept if Money did not find the
match on its own for some reason. Click Change and match it to the
transfer you already made if Money did not match it for you. I
would consider this the classic of the ways I like. Note that for
this you would *not* use the Money 2005 "EXPENSE Credit Card
Payment".

2. In method 2, don't handle credit card payments as transfers or
the pre-defined "Credit Card Payment Instead create one category of
"CC payment" or some such. If you define the category as an
expense category, expect a warning when you use it to represent the
payment within the credit card account -- if you have the warning
enabled. Just click Yes in response to the warning. The category
should net at zero in reports across accounts, and you can still
customize to ignore the category if you like. use the Money 2005
"EXPENSE Credit Card Payment". For this method you could use
the Money 2005 "EXPENSE Credit Card Payment".

I would've thought that Money could handle what I'm trying to do, so
maybe I'm just doing it wrong. I have a checking and credit card
account, both of which have the statements entered electronically. I
also have other investment accounts, all of which are entered
manually.

In one of the investment accounts, I had the account do a direct debit
from my checking account to buy new mutual fund shares. My bank
statement already has an entry, downloaded electronically, that shows
the debit. I want to convert that into a transfer to my investment
account.

I can do it -- almost. The problem is that the date of the debit is a
few days earlier than the date of the credit. Float time. Money seems
unable to link two transactions which occur on different dates.

This scenario comes up in many other contexts. My credit card does a
direct debit from my checking account, but because the dates differ I
can't get Money to reconcile them.

What am I missing?

Thanks!
-- Ethan