Hi, I made up the name "transaction entry" because I didn't know what to call it. 😊 I didn't know there was such a thing as a transaction entry window.
If I had the Donations account open, I would have had the same kind of problem. Per Gyle's suggestion it looks like I can switch to the good old Credit / Debit labels. Also, the second part of my question involved the Transaction report. There the headings at the top seem backwards. They are labeled Credit and Debit, but where I entered a Debit, it appears in the Credit column and vice versa. Any comment on this? -P. On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 6:23 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter > > The terms Increase and Decrease in the header only apply to the account > whose > register you have open not to the accounts which are the target of the > individual split(entry) of the transaction and not to the account which is > designated in the second split. It would appear that you have the register > for > your checking account open and a debit entry is an Increase in that. If > there > was a credit split/entry to your checking account it would appear in the > decrease column. The second line of the transaction is the corresponding > credit > entry to the revenue account. This is why we accountants find the headers > Increase/Decrease confusing. > > You are not making entries in a "transaction entry" window in GnuCash but > you > are performing the transaction entry directly into the register for that > account > itself. > > David Cousens > > On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 17:13 -0400, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Hi, I'm using Gnucash 4.11 on MacOS 11.6.8. > > > > There are two images attached, labeled Transaction entry and Transaction > > report. They are two different views of the same transaction, to a non > > profit that I am doing the books for. > > > > The transaction involves a deposit to our checking account from Wepay. > It's > > a donation, which we account for under Revenue:Donations, which increases > > with a Credit, and the bank account will increase with a Debit, so this > > should be properly balanced. > > > > However, from the Transaction-entry screen shot, where the column labels > > are Increase and Decrease, I have to enter the Donation as a Decrease in > > order to make the Donation record increase. This is bizarre, is it not? > > > > You can see in the same image that the checking balance goes up. so it > > seems to be properly recorded as a debit; in addition, though not shown, > > the sum of Donations does goes up, which seems contrary to having to > enter > > it as a Decrease. > > > > Now look at the second screenshot, the Transaction-report view for this > > transaction. What is especially strange here is that the labels of the > > Debit and Credit columns are exactly reversed. It says that the Checking > > side of the transaction is a Credit and the Donation side is a Debit, > which > > is exactly backwards. > > > > Any insight, including any aspect due to my own foolishness and/or > > inexperience, would be appreciated. > > > > -P. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.
