Notes-Memo confusion

[David Carlson]

On 4/13/2011 2:40 PM, David T. wrote:
>
> Chapter 4 of the Tutorial and Concepts Guide--especially 4.1 Basic Concepts (http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/txns-concepts1.html)--deals directly with your concern. It says "a single transaction must always consist of at least two parts, a from and a to account. The from account is passing value to the to account. Accountants call these parts of a transaction Ledger Entries. In GnuCash, they are called Splits."
>
> HTH,
> David
>
> --- On Wed, 4/13/11, Carpet Nailz <carpetnailz at researchintegration.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Carpet Nailz <carpetnailz at researchintegration.org>
>> Subject: Re: Notes-Memo confusion
>> To: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 7:16 AM
>> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:42 +0100,
>> Maf. King wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 13 April 2011 14:37:10 Carpet Nailz
>> wrote:
>>>> I'm still confused, since I'm usually not doing a
>> "split," just a simple
>>>> entry with one credit and one debit in basic
>> ledger mode. So why does it
>>>> not just capture what I'm entering there rather
>> than pulling in
>>>> something from a "split" transaction that's not
>> even being used now?
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Don't forget that to GC, every transaction
>> (internally, at least) is a 
>>> collection of at least 2 splits.
>>>
>>> Maf,
>>>
>> I can't "forget" something I didn't know. The only use of
>> 'split' that
>> I've ever seen in GnuCash (been using it for about 8 years)
>> refers to
>> split transactions. Where would one learn that the credit
>> and debit
>> entries are each "Splits" (other than Derek's good
>> explanation that I
>> just received)?
>>
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I still have not seen an answer to the question about which of these
memos or notes are printed in which reports and how to choose, if possible.


David Carlson
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