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Learn how credit card posting affects your transaction timeline, the differences between transaction and post dates, and how it impacts your account balance and payments.

A pending transaction means funds in your account are earmarked and authorized for a specific transaction. However, the transaction isn’t yet fully processed or posted to your account. Read Next: 5 ...

Yin and yang, life and death, Clark Kent and Superman. Some concepts are so intertwined that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. Transaction processing (TP) and relational databases ...

The post reference, or PR, column is one of the chief ways to ensure that your books remain accurate and complete. In accounting, to "post" a transaction means to record it in the journal and/or the ...