Can Treasury Accounting process External Transactions that are not Unreconciled?

We have entered External Transactions for manual payroll checks that are issued outside of our AP system.  We would like these transactions to post to the GL as of the date they are created; however, they are not picked up by the Treasury Automatic Accounting process until the date they are Reconciled via the Semi-Automatic Reconciliation process.  This is causing problems at the General Ledger level.  If a check is written in one month and reconciled in a subsequent month, the transaction attempts to post back to a closed accounting period.  What is the best way of dealing with this