Inserting transactions with debit card, cheque and prepaid card

[Claudio Corti]

Thanks Ronal,

I think that I will use your idea, since creating an asset called "debit 
card" doesn't look right to me, because there would always be a negative 
amount of money in this asset.

Claudio

On 12/05/14 01:55, Ronal B Morse wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 18:25 +0200, Claudio Corti wrote:
>> Dear GnuCash experts,
>>
>> I have some doubts about how to insert expenses payed with debit card,
>> cheque and/or prepaid card.
>> I'd say that a prepaid card is an Asset, so I should first do a
>> transaction from my bank checking account to the prepaid card account
>> and then a transaction from the prepaid card account to the expenses
>> account, right?
>> But what about debit cards and cheques? They are not assets, they're
>> just different ways of payment and, unlike my wallet, I don't have to
>> transfer anything from my checking account to them.
>> Should I put in the transaction directly my checking account and write
>> in the notes if the payment was with debit card or cheque? Or is there a
>> better way to differentiate this kind of expenses?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Claudio
> For Debit card transactions I use either POS (point of sale) or EFT
> (electronic fund transfer) in the number field of the checking account
> register. Any further info required goes into the memo field.
>
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