Adrian, As entertaining as this thread has been, it is difficult for me to admit that I long for it to end. It is hard to watch you offer the quantity and quality of help to someone who apparently is living in another dimension. Anyway, I may be out of line and if so I'm sorry. I just hope the end is near. Gary
-----Original Message----- From: gnucash-user [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone Sent: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:07 PM To: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] credit card opening balance I had the same understanding. The OP didn’t grok ’transfer’ and asked how to get rid of it. So I advised to switch views to Transaction Journal. Then he didn’t understand why there were two entries for each transaction (though I had already explained that would happen), a charge and a payment. (he hadn’t switched labels yet) Since he was still using informal labels, those are the column headings. So I again recommended switching to formal debit/credit labels. It was then the OP, understanding what was happening, decided this was more ‘accounting’ than he was interested in accomplishing and so is likely going to use a spreadsheet instead. All of this happened across about 3-4 separate threads, so you might not catch all of that in this one. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 12, 2019, at 7:11 AM, David Carlson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Now I am confused, because I thought the topic was about which account to > assign an opening balance for a credit card to, then it changed to whether > to ... use "traditional accounting labels" ... instead of 'charge' and > 'expense', with a side trip into whether to use single line or two line > views or transaction journal view. > > The underlying transaction (once it is correctly entered) would remain the > same regardless of which view preference is selected or which account > register the transaction is viewed in. I could tell you my personal view > preference, but that would just add to the confusion. It is up to the user > to try them out and come to his own conclusion. > > -- > David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
