Reports and splits - not compatible

[Derek Atkins]

Cam Ellison <cam at ellisonet.ca> writes:

> * Derek Atkins (warlord at MIT.EDU) wrote:
> >
> > Uh, may I ask why you have 2 credits in one transaction?  There is
> > nothing particular WRONG with it, but generally you have one credit
> > and a lot of debits, or one debit and a lot of credits.
> >
> A reasonable question, I think.  My wife runs a family daycare, and
> makes deposits infrequently.  She usually has both the rent cheque,
> and daycare cheques and cash, to deposit, and sticks them all in one
> envelope, and then into the ATM.

Sure, but this is still a one-to-many transaction.  It's a
split-transaction between Bank and Income:Rent, Income:Daycare, and
Cash, so I still don't see how you've got multiple credits and multiple
debits in this transaction.  It should look something like this:

Bank            100
Cash                    25                
I:Rent                  25
I:Daycare               50

So I'm still not clear how you're getting such a "strange" (IMHO) transaction.

> Gladly.  This may take a couple of days to get at -- I'm stealing time
> from client reports to answer this.  I don't think you want the whole
> file, but I'll put together some examples to show what happens.  In
> the meantime, I can solve the problem by showing a receipt into petty
> cash, and a subsequent transfer into the account.

No rush.  We're volunteers ourselves and only work on GnuCash in our
spare time, too.  So it's quite acceptable that you only work on it
in your spare time as well ;)

> Thanks for looking into this
> 
> Cam

-derek

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