On 9/3/2023 5:57 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
On 2023-09-03 12:12, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
Each of those transactions in the CC account you are deleting had
another account associated with it (at least one other account, could be
more if a "split").
I am not familiar with your usage of the word "split", but I don't think
it's standard for GnuCash.
A "split transaction" --- entered by starting the transaction and then
hitting the "split" button. This switches to "journal mode" thus
allowing you to enter a transaction that affects more than just two
accounts.
Note that entering transactions first with a "journal" entry is what we
old timers used to do for all transactions (even those affecting just
two accounts) unless we had a subsection of the ledger set up for
"cashbook accounting" where "popular" transactions affecting just this
subset were entered directly into the ledger with no journal entry. In
practice that might be >90% of transactions saving a lot of time and
reducing the chance of error (during the "posting" process).
Essentially gnucash is using "cashbook accounting" where the subset is
the entire ledger when the transaction only affects two accounts.
Michael D Novack
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