account transaction reports

[Linas Vepstas]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:37:23AM +1100, Doug Laidlaw was heard to remark:
> A split transaction in the credit card account should be identifiable in =
each=20
> expense account involved as coming from the credit card, because at that=
=20
> "end" of the transaction it isn't a split. =20

Gnucash does not explicitly mark 'each end' of a transaction. All splits
are created equal: they must total to zero, but other than that, there
is no imposed ordering or special treatment.  There is no way to mark
'each end', because its fundamentally ambiguous.

However ... You can implicitly deduce the 'other end':  it is the split
(or splits) whose sign is opposite of the current split.  However, its
not foolproof:

credit card -  buy thing   $100
                   tax      $13
                rebate     -$50
expense account  net       -$63
                        ---------
              total          $0.00   =20

How, exactly, does one go about carving that one up? which end was
which?  (esp if we put the rebate into the expense acount, as an
'income') Confusing, eh?


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