No it is not a split. The shoes cost $50 so I want to have the clothes
account debited with $50 and the shoes account debited with $50 and the bank
account credited with $50.
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> Jens M�ller
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> Subject: Re: Dimensions?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom K. Weckstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:31 AM
> Subject: Dimensions?
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>
>
> >
> > Let's say I have bought a pair of jogging shoes.
> > I'd like to book a transaction to my "sport expenses"
> account and to my
> > "clothing expenses" account, and naturally reduce the
> balance of my
> > bank account.
> > This may not be the best possible example, but I want to
> have different
> > dimensions for my expenses. It is often so that one
> categorization of
> > expenses is not enough. And sometimes it is not only about different
> > expense accounts. Sometimes one wants to have an "asset" account and
> > book a purchase of e.g. computer equipment to the asset
> account and to
> > an expense account as well. How to do that?
> Sounds like what is called a split transaction in Gnucash. It
> can involve
> several accounts on both side of the transaction. Of course,
> the sum of both
> sides has to be the same.
>
> Jens
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