Ben Stanley writes:
>
> 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.
No, they aren't different. There are no categories in GnuCash, notwithstanding
the misleading lables in the transfer dialog (I'm fixing that now). Every
split really is supposed to have an account. If you insist on not having
an account, just delete the whole split.
> 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.
>
Ok, I see what you mean here. I'll try to fix this for 1.4
dave
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