Dave Peticolas wrote:
> Ben Stanley writes:
> > I'm using gnucash 1.3.99, in auto-single mode.
> >
> > I have been attempting to remove a category from a journal entry (thus
> > violating the fundamental principle of double entry accounting...). I
> > erase the category, and press enter to record the transaction. However,
> > the entry comes straight back. What's going on?
>
> You need to just delete the whole ledger entry. Removing an account
> from a ledger entry doesn't make much sense, so gnucash don't allow
> it. It will allow you to remove the whole entry, though, which will
> also make the transaction unbalanced.
Thing is, I thought that what I was trying to do did make sense. Let me see
if I can explain any better.
My wife and I maintain personal savings, as separate from general cash. The
savings are maintained as cash accounts, and generally contains stuff like
money given to us for birthdays etc. Thus, these accounts are a personal
slush fund, to do whatever you like with. As such, they should not come under
control of budgeting or other general expenditure control mechanisms.
In order to enforce this ideology on the accounts, I have been trying to
erase any `categories' associated with spending money out of these accounts.
While this makes the transaction unbalanced in the double-entry accounting
sense, it still fits with what I want to do. I can see that what I *should*
do is to create an expense category just for this purpose. However, in the
meantime I was trying to erase the category. I think this should be allowed.
I agree that deleting the account associated with the transaction doesn't
make much sense. I guess this is another thing that makes Income/Expense
accounts different from Cash/Bank accounts.
> > I'm also having trouble with the amounts changing. When I enter a
> > description which causes a memoized transaction to be recalled, and
> > subsequently edit the amounts, sometimes the amounts are changed back to
> > the original values after recording the transaction.
>
> GnuCash will make sure the transaction is balanced by adjusting one
> of the ledger entry amounts automatically. This is not a user-friendly
> way of doing things and in the future we will make this better. However,
> the solution is complex enough that it will have to wait until 1.5.
I've learned to cope with how this works now... Just don't edit the top
summary line and you're OK.
I've figured out that what bothered me most was this:
Create blank entry
enter description - TAB - memoized transaction appears.
Edit amount, press enter (note that this amount is on the summary line...)
The edit is undone, because you didn't edit the entry below, which the
summary amount is re-calculated from! Thus the edit is lost.
This behaviour in particular needs to be changed before 1.4.
> Also, the problem with editing the reconcile flags is fixed, it will
> be in 1.3.100, coming out tomorrow.
Thanks.
Ben.
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