Thanks Geoff, I've never been able to get my head around "splits" but your method seems straightforward - sort of 🤔. I'll give it a shot. As I have no need for anything official, I guess I can always just manually enter the three entries separately. Cheers
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 4:32 PM Geoff <cleanoutmys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tony > > I'm not an accountant, but I would treat it as an asset thus: > > Payment > Assets:Bank: -1,600 > Assets:Bond: +1,000 > Expenses:Rent: +600 > > Refund > Assets:Bank: +1,000 > Assets:Bond: -1,000 > > The first transaction (Payment) is a "split" - it has 3 legs. > > Regards > > Geoff > ===== > > On 22/11/2020 7:29 pm, Tony Vanson wrote: > > Hi all, > > Using Windows 10 Home > > GC 4.2 > > > > I anticipate renting a property for 1 month and will pay the rental up > > front plus a security deposit amount which will be returned at the finish > > of the rental period. I am totally in the dark how to approach this. > > Do I need some kind of split? The rental expense is a straight forward > > expense, but how do I input the security deposit - I tried it as an asset > > but that didn't work and doesn't seem right. Various other things i tried > > usually came up with an Imbalance entry. > > I would really appreciate some guidance on this. > > Cheers > > > -- *Tony Vanson* *The older I get,* *the better I was* _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
