I think you are being confused by GnuCash being an explicit double entry accounting application.
Each transaction has at least two entries which debit or credit two or more accounts. The sum of the debit entries for a transaction must equal the sum of the credit entries. Each account can be displayed as its own register by double clicking on it in the Accounts tab to open the Register for that account. You can display the register in one of 3 modes selectable from the View menu: Basic Ledger, Auto-Split Ledger or Transaction Journal mode. In the first mode you only see 1 line which is the entry for that account for the transaction. If you display the register in auto-split mode, the selected transaction will open as multiple lines, each line being one of the debit or credit entries to other accounts affected by the transaction. In the transaction journal mode all transctions in the register are displayed in the sme mode as the Auto split register not just the currently selected transaction. If you display the register for another account that is affected by a given transaction in auto split or transaction journal mode you will see that both registers display the same data for the same transaction but the entries for that transaction may be in a different order. This is normal behaviour in GnuCash On Thu, 2025-04-10 at 13:35 +0530, Shashi Gupta wrote: > O.S. Ubuntu 20.04.6 (64) gnucash version 5.10 > During creating transactions the same category (account) is created > in > different menus. For example one account belonging to an income group > is > wrongly opened in the Asset & Income group. When I try to edit the > same in > the desired group it shows this name already exists. And I have to > edit > each transaction one by one; which takes a long time and is a > cumbersome process. *Is there any option to merge such accounts to > any one > of them either via command line or via graphical menu.* > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
