Eric Siegerman <pub08-...@davor.org> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 04:29:49PM -0400, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>> Ah .......... That is what had me confused about "three way splits"
>
> To make things worse, the GnuCash source code uses "split" in yet
> another way: each of a transaction's entries is stored in a data
> structure called a split. Thus, what in accounting terms is a
> simple, un-split transaction, is stored in GnuCash as two
> "splits" (one each for the debit and credit entries).
>
> One often has to stop and think about whether someone means
> "split" in the GnuCash-internal or the formal accounting sense
> :-/
I find it's *usually* easy to determine based on context. A Split, by
itself, usually means an individual Gnucash Split. On the other hand, a
Split Transaction usually implies a transaction with >2 splits.
There are, of course, times when the context is ambiguous, but I find
this is accurate most of the time.
> -Eric
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-derek
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