Gareth,
There is no way that GnuCash automatically debits or credits an asset
account when you enter a transaction from an income or expense account. You
have to manually enter the second part of the transaction to create the
appropriate debit or credit to the asset account. When you have entered the
transaction into say an expense account you enter the first split
E.g. if you have the Expense:Clothes Account open and you enter the
transaction there
Date Description Account
Debit Credit
12/12/19 Clothes
Expense:Clothes $30
you will have to enter the second split which will credit your bank account.
To do this you can use the tab key after entering the $30 in the debit
column to open up the second split line. In this line if you tab to the
Account field , click on the field to bring up the drop down list and select
Asset:Current Assets:Bank (or whatever account you are spending the money
from) you will find the $30 appears in the Credit column to balance the
transaction. I.e. the account register now looks like:
Date Description Account
Debit Credit
12/12/19 Clothes
Expense:Clothes $30.00
Asset:CurrentAssets:Bank $30.00
If you then hit return and then click anywhere else in the window (a
previous transaction or on the date for a new transaction the dialog asking
you to either record or cancel the transaction will then come up. Select
Record and you are done.
See https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/ch_Common_Trans_Ops.html
for more detail about entering transactions.
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David Cousens
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