Arlington CPA and Bookkeeping AlternativeCPA Arlington. The deposit is not the city report.
Steven Palmieri dates the stay and the batch as two facts, then the report uses the stay.
Separate the dates
Two dates that like to pretend they are one
A Friday stay can become a Monday deposit. The guest was here on Friday. The bank learned about it on Monday. The city report wants the stay. The bank reconciliation wants the deposit. If you let one date stand for both, the month looks tidy and the report looks wrong, or the other way around.
We keep a small bridge. Stay date, batch date, amount, and whether a district fee was inside the rate. The bridge is not a novel. It is four columns a person can read without us in the room.
A mall Saturday is still a dated Saturday
The Parks Mall at Arlington opened in 1988 at Interstate 20 and South Cooper, and it is the indoor center that remains after the others closed. We can wander that mall on a Saturday the way you do. Rooms taken around that Saturday still file on the stay, not on the morning the deposit posts.
The same habit covers a game night, a concert, and a week when nobody came. The interesting weekends and the empty ones use the same bridge. That is the point. The close does not change personality when the building does.
What the report is allowed to say
The report can say what the closed month says. It cannot say what we hope the next batch will explain. If a batch is missing, the month stays open until it arrives or until we book the difference on purpose. An open month is allowed. A pretended close is not.
Bring the week where the deposit and the stay disagree. That single week is usually enough to show the shape. The bridge stays.
Card brands care which morning the batch cleared. The city cares which night the guest slept. Those two clocks will never share a calendar, so the close has to show both, with a bridge a person can read. We keep that bridge in the same file as the report. If a batch covers two months, we split it. If a stay is cancelled after the batch, we show the reversal in the month the bank shows it.
Posting day is not stay day.
Name the week where the deposit and the stay disagree.
Show us the week
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