[Linux-disciples] Gnucash

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:27:38PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I find with gnucash eventually everything just intuitively goes into
> place.  If it helps you conceptually to think of it as a deposit into
> your checking, just add the transaction from the checking register, and
> don't worry about the fact that an equal and opposite transaction has
> been created in income which is a "withdrawal."

I think I'm already most of the way to that intuition, but I
just want to make sure. So let me explain the problem I'm
having with the split transaction. I'll walk you through
what I'm doing. I want to split an ATM withdrawal that was
$40 in cash plus a $1.25 ATM fee.

1) Enter the date and description. For what it's worth, I
described it as 'cash'.

2) Enter '41.25' in the 'withdrawal' column (assuming that,
like Quicken, 41.25 is the net total).

3) Click 'split transaction'.

4) Go to the first item of the split. Enter 'cash', and
enter $40 in the 'withdrawal' column, transferring to the
Cash account.

5) Enter 'ATM fee', $1.25 transfer to the 'Expenses' account
in the second line of the split.

6) Close the split. Now, for reasons I can't explain, I get
'$40' in the 'withdrawal' column. When I press enter to
commit the changed record, I get an error that 'the current
transaction is unbalanced.'

What am I missing?

-- 
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  the Hell of it, but once you start coloring in whatever
  coloring book or colored coloring you colored, there's a
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  something. In that I cheerfully liken it to bay leaves.''
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