On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 21:16:35 -0800 "Stephen M. Butler" <stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heidi, > > Also, this sounds like a credit card being used for several purchases > throughout the month. In which case it is better to record the > individual purchases as they occur. Or, download the individual > lines to import. > > In that case, you will have a Liability:Credit Card:nameofcc account > against which all the transactions will post with the other side of > the post (the other split) being the relevant expense account. > > When you pay the credit card off, you record the payment against the > checking account on the one side and the Liability account on the > other. > > Otherwise, if you have a lot of purchases throughout the month there > would be one humongous transaction with gobs of splits and you would > lose the date for each purchase. This is the best way to proceed, once you have followed David Cousen's suggestion and read the tutorial and concepts guide. Liz _______________________________________________ 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.
