Just to add one more instance, the business features, regularly do this, when entering a bill or invoice.
10 items on an invoice/bill could correspond to as many as 10 different income/expense accounts, or as few as one. Once the transaction has been posted, (one transaction per invoice/bill), you can look it up and find one split per line item, and these may all be to the same account, or not, depending on whether they should. > On Jul 20, 2023, at 2:35 PM, David Carlson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yes. I do it monthly in some accounts where I make a minimum payment on a > loan and separately add an additional amount. > > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:18 PM Henry Law <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Earlier today my wife was running GNUCash to update "her" bit of the >> accounts and got into a serious tangle because she (inadvertently) >> changed a newly-imported transaction so that its two splits -- which >> should have been our current account and her credit card account -- >> both referred to the credit card account. She then reconciled one half >> and not the other, which caused a cascade of issues which took me >> several hours and a manual edit to the GNUCash file to fix. >> >> Should GNUCash refuse to allow a transaction to have two splits into >> the same account? My knowledge of accounting is scant, but with it I >> can't see why one would ever legitimately do that. >> >> -- >> -- >> Henry Law n e w s @ l a w s h o u s e . o r g >> Manchester, England >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
