transfer from incoming

[Joerg Sommer]

begin  Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Joerg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> writes:
> 
>> I will transfer 100 Euro from my incoming account to my bank, because I
>> must pay some of my incoming back. So the account at the end of the year
>> should show me the real amount, I've got. But if I enter a transfer in
>> the general ledger with 100 funds in bank funds out incoming, I get a
>> transfer that is added in bank _and_ incoming. The amount isn't deducted
>> from the incoming account it is added. What's wrong?
> 
> I have no idea what an "Incoming" account is...  What account-type
> is it?  Do you mean an "Income" account?  If so, income accounts

Yes. The account is of the type "income".

> are "magic" -- they start at zero and as you "pull" income out of
> them the value of the account increases.  This means both your bank
> and income accounts will increase together.

Bad. What can I do to tell this account, I must give something back? I've
got 100 Euro, but I should got only 80 Euro. The transaction to my bank
account is 100 in and now I must tranfer 20 Euro out. At the end of the
year, the income account should show me the sum of what I've really got.

>> I've created a new account. Can I give it a new position in the tree? How
>> can I move it to another position?
>
> If what you want is to re-order the accounts, you can re-order based
> on the Account Code.  However, I believe that reordering on account
> code wont take effect until you restart gnucash....

Great. That was what I want.

BTW: Does anyone know, when the german mailinglist will come up?

Bye, Joerg.