> Having finally succeeded in compiling and installing cvs gnucash, I've been
> creating dozens of accounts for everything that I want to keep track of and
> trying to figure out how to link transcactions to multiple accounts.
>
> For instance, I'm concentrating first on expenses since that is what I've
> been keeping track of most scrupulously in the old "ascii file edited with
> vi" system.
>
> Just from the last car repair bill, I note that there is a labor amount,
> a parts amount, a sales tax amount and an environmental tax amount. Yes,
> I could enter all these numbers separately in Expenses->Auto Expenses->
> Repair->Labor, Expenses->Auto Expenses->Repair->Parts, Expenses->Taxes->Sales
> ,
> and Expenses->Taxes->Environmental, but then I would lose the "one-transactio
> n"
> aspect. How is, say, a "valve cover gastet replacement" linked to the 4
> items described above, which are not really separate transactions?
>
> At first, it appears that having the "real" transaction in "Auto Repair" is
> an easy way out, but "Expenses->Taxes" is at the same level as "Expenses->
> Auto Expenses" and even higher in the tree than "Expenses->Auto Expenses->
> Repair", so sub-accounts only are not the answer. It would be easier and
> more natural to start with a "transaction editing" window and link from
> there to the different accounts. Is that what the "transfer from" field
> is supposed to achieve? I suspect that what the "transfer from" field is
> designed to do is debit the appropriate account where this money came from.
> Is this what a split transaction is?
Yes, and they are exactly how you handle the situations you describe.
Try switching the register to multi-line mode. Enter each part of your
transaction on a separate line in the register.
> BTW, the pull-down list in this field would be clearer if the whole
> fully-qualified account name were displayed.
Definitely.
> I also notice that the widening of the columns (when the cursor becomes
> <-> on the vertical line between the columns) does not work.
This is a work in progress. More progress must be made :)
dave
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