[Linux-disciples] Gnucash

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

This is a tricky gnucash UI issue.  It took me a few dozen times until I
could always get splits right the first time.  It's actually trying to
help you, but there's something counterintuitive about the order in which
you need to do things.

It's much easier to show you then describe how to do it, but I think it
has something to do with entering the components of the split below the
line which has the total; each component will reduce the remaining total
until it zeroes back out.  Just try playing around with it and I'm sure
you'll get it.  If not, I'll try to send a screenshot later.

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:59:23PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?
> -- 
> ``Nobody ever picks yellow out of the [crayon] box just for
>   the Hell of it, but once you start coloring in whatever
>   coloring book or colored coloring you colored, there's a
>   99.9% chance you'll eventually need the yellow for
>   something. In that I cheerfully liken it to bay leaves.''
>  -http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0913/
> 



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