My opinion is that in your case, 
I have three transaction. 
One for the public transportation 
One for the food
One for the furniture and the delivery

Basically one for each time you go to the cashier. 
In this case, you canore easily say what i do durimg my day... 
Regards

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> Le 27 août 2017 à 18:50, Martin Blais <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> It's really just a choice.
> The question to ask yourself if whether you'd want to be able to list a 
> subset of the transactions individually or not.
> For the most part, because most aggregation reports are done by grouping per 
> account, it doesn't matter very much.
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to understand best-practices for entries, and if there are 
>> pros/cons to grouping transections in one entry, or splitting it up.
>> 
>> The following is based on going to IKEA, eating lunch, buying a piece of 
>> furniture with a US CC, and getting it delivered.
>> 
>> 2017-08-25 * "IKEA"
>>   Assets:Cash:DKK                         -50 DKK
>>   Expense:Travel:PublicTransit        50 DKK ; bus to IKEA
>>   Assets:Bank:DKK                       -100 DKK
>>   Expenses:Food:Restaurant         100 DKK ; lunch at IKEA
>>   Expense:Home                           631 DKK @@ 100 USD ; furniture
>>   Liabilities:CC                              -100 USD
>>   Assets:Cash:DKK                        -50 DKK ; deliver fee
>>   Expense:Home                             50 DKK
>> 
>> I could also see the furniture + delivery fee under "IKEA", and then 
>> separate entries for "Lunch" and "Bus".
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>>    -k.
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