How to input fee charged from loan account and taken from savings account

[Stephen J. Gowdy]

Hi Brendan,
  	The fee doesn't change the loan account, does it? Shouldn't it 
just go from Savings to Fee?
  	For different day transactions I just live with the dates not 
always being correct. Having a transfer account for all possible 
transactions probably doesn't scale very well. Not sure what other folk do 
or if there is something in gnucash to do that correctly.

  							regards,

  							Stephen.

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Brendan Simon wrote:

> I'm having trouble figuring out how to enter the following scenario.
>
> Bank has charged a fee to my Loan account on 1-Nov-2006, and the money
> is taken from my Savings account on 2-Nov-2006.
>
> Inputing transactions between accounts is not a problem  I can do that.
> For the different dates I have an intermediate Transfer account.  Money
> leaves one account on one day and goes to the transfer account, then on
> the day it is received in the destination account, I enter another
> transaction from the Transfer account to the destination account.
>
> My problem is how can I record this so my expense account for bank fees
> is incremented ???
> i.e. if the fee was for $10 and the $10 was transferred between my
> savings account to my loan account, then I should be able to input that
> transfer and have my savings account debited $10, my loan account
> credited $10 and my Expense:Fees account increased by $10.
>
> I don't see how 3 amounts can be entered into a double entry accounting
> system :-/  There must be some way to do this but my brain hurts and
> can't figure it out :(
>
> Any suggestions ???
> Thanks, Brendan.
>
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