Accounting for saving money to pay credit card monthly

[TC]

TC > You CANNOT do what you're trying to do within the the overall ledgers

RU > Not true; I've been using GnuCash to handle budgets for several years
RU > now.  What I do is make my budgets sub-accounts of my chequing and
RU > savings accounts ...

Profound! That looks like an excellent approach. Original poster, ignore 
everything I said and listen to this man.

(Don't you just love it when the habit of a lifetime - well, ten years - 
is shown to be a waste of effort :-) )

tc