newbie question; Accounts Payable splits

[Dan Black]

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 18:10, Marc Evans wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I am a newbie to gnucash. I am entering my data since 1/1/04 into the
> system. I have setup to enter details of credit cards as liabilities. I'd
> like to use the Accounts Payable feature to track bills that I have
> received but have not yet paid. When I try to enter an invoice from a
> credit card vendor, I am not provided the ability to split the expense
> account details out. Why not, or said another way, what am I doing wrong?
> As a general rule of thumb, would it not be desirable to be able to split
> details of invoices out when entering them into Payables?
> 
I think what you should be doing is entering your credit card
transactions individually as they happen in the Liabilities:Credit Card
account.  Then when you receive your statement, you can reconcile it. 
Then use the Accounts Payable invoices for your other bills.



> I suppose that I could ask this a different way. If you wish to track
> details of transactions, such as interest, principal and different expense
> catagories for products/services, but also wish to have the Payables
> managed together, how do you enter the data into the system to achieve
> these goals?
> 
> Everything seems to work as I would hope for invoices which don't require
> splitting, for what that is worth.
> 
> For reference, I am running version 1.8.8 on a FreeBSD system.
> 
> Thanks in advance - Marc

- Dan Black
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