Accounting for saving money to pay credit card monthly

[Matthew Vanecek]

<quote who="Mark Johnson">
> Matthew Vanecek wrote:
>
>><quote who="Bill Wisse">
>>>I do that as well and it works great.
>>>I have a number of subaccounts in my cheque account.
>>>When I make a deposit say for $1000.00 I split this up in
>>>one subaccount "Reserved for Import duty" ( end of the month I have to
>>> pay  Import duty) ... $200.00. Cheque account $800.00.
>>>the total will still show up as $1000.00 but I see that I can only
>>> spend
>>>  $800.00
>>[snip]
>>
> I'm curious.  How does this affect your reconciling the account?  It
> looks to me like reconciling would be very difficult.
>
> Mark

I assume you're talking about the subaccount thing.  The reconcile dialog
can include all transactions from subaccounts of the to-be-reconciled
account, so reconciliation can proceed just as if all the transactions
belong to the top account.

ciao,

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