Best Practice for transfers between own accounts

[Eric Morey]

On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 18:06 -0700, martysto wrote:
> I have various accounts were I import the data for each account directly or
> via CSV/QIF. I face the problem that I end up having plenty of duplicate
> transactions when I transfer money between them. 
>
I'm not clear on why you are getting duplicate transactions. 


> The main problem is that the amount is sometimes only received after a
> couple of days which makes matching them rather cumbersome and
> double-checking with the original records error prone.
> 
It isn't apparent to me why this creates duplicate transactions. 


> I am thinking to start over and introduce a “Transfer” account which
> should
> be 0 under normal circumstances.
> 
> Each transaction between my own accounts would then be logged twice.
> 
It seems like your solution is to create duplicate transactions.