Cookie jar accounting

[Dave Peticolas]

Ed Symanzik writes:
> Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > 
> > Ed Symanzik writes:
> 
> > > This looks ok.  Then I spend it:
> > >
> > > Check #1000
> > >   Checking:Food     -300
> > >   Checking:Clothing -100
> > >   Food              +300
> > >   Clothing          +100
> > >
> > > Gnucash seems to get really confused with this.
> > > My guess is I am the one who is confused or there
> > > is something fundamentally wrong with my plan.
> > 
> > Could you explain how it gets confused?
> 
> I start a transaction as a withdrawl from c:food for $100.
> Then I add an additional withdrawl from c:clothing for $300.
> The c:food withdrawl changes to $300.  
> 
> It looks like the first line is one side of a transaction 
> and all following lines are the other side.  Can I split
> both sides of a transaction?

You can, but with gnucash 1.4.x, it's a bit tricky, because
GnuCash tries to balance the transaction as you go. Basically,
keep entering the splits and then adjust them in reverse order.
This will be fixed in the next stable version.

dave