David, I may be misinterpreting your description of the transactions you are making and if so the first two paragraphs may be irrelevant.
When you earn income, in double entry accounting the transaction to record that will be a debit to an asset account (usually a bank account or cash in wallet or similar depending on how you are paid or receive the income) to record the increase in your assets and a corresponding credit to the relevant income to record how that that increase in assets came about as a result of earned income. When you pay off your mortgage principal, you should not be paying it out of the income account, but out of an asset account (most likely a bank account or cash account where the funds are coming from) and the transaction to record this will credit the asset account and debit the liability account for your mortgage. The interest is normally recorded as an expense. If you are actually paying the mortgage out of an income account as you described rather than an asset account it means your income accounts will not be actually recording your income. The expenses barchart only records expenses so it only allows you to add expense accounts. You could possibly customise a Transaction report and then select your expense accounts and the liability account for your mortgage in that report then save it as a custom report. If you record the interest charged and then the interest paid under the mortgage liability account you could setup two sub-accounts of the mortgage liability account, one to record the interest componnet and one to record the paydown of the principal and then only include the latter account in the above customised Transaction report, you should get what you require. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
