I like the idea of: Simple Transaction Compound Transaction Journal/Memorandum (optionally)
Then a 'split' is the single line item in the transaction and is either a debit or credit. (all transactions having at least one of each, with Memorandums having none/empty splits)
This would remove the 'multi-split' terminology confusion and is more of a convention on our part here on the list in our referencing, and I think I'll adopt it from here on out.
The only place I can see in the UI that might assist with this is in Basic Ledger View to change the text "-Split Transaction-" to say "-Compound Transaction-" for clarity. I'm not sure how this would affect translations though.
There might be a few places in the documentation to tweak as well, but I haven't looked it over in some time.
Regards, Adrien On 1/1/26 3:17 PM, Patrick James via gnucash-user wrote:
1. Simple Journal Entry [=standard accounting terminology for a journal entry with exactly one debit and one credit] 2. Complex Journal Entry [=standard accounting terminology for a journal entry that has more than one debit or more than one credit; "compound journal entry" is also equally acceptable terminology] 3. Then there is another type of entry which does not meet either definition above, and that's a "Memorandum Journal Entry" [=no debit entry, and thus no credit entry].
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