Dimensions?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom K. Weckstrom" <Tom.K.Weckstrom@F-Secure.com>
To: <gnucash-devel@lists.gnumatic.com>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:31 AM
Subject: Dimensions?



>
> Let's say I have bought a pair of jogging shoes.
> I'd like to book a transaction to my "sport expenses" account and to my
> "clothing expenses"     account, and naturally reduce the balance of my
> bank account.
> This may not be the best possible example, but I want to have different
> dimensions for my expenses. It is often so that one categorization of
> expenses is not enough. And sometimes it is not only about different
> expense accounts. Sometimes one wants to have an "asset" account and
> book a purchase of e.g. computer equipment to the asset account and to
> an expense account as well. How to do that?
Sounds like what is called a split transaction in Gnucash. It can involve
several accounts on both side of the transaction. Of course, the sum of both
sides has to be the same.

Jens