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

[Brendan Simon]

Thanks Stephen. You are right. I had a look at my paper statements and 
the loan account doesn't change. I can see there are lots of fees and 
fee reversals for the same amount so they balance each other. I think 
was seeing something different because I imported (QIF) my savings 
account and "presumed" that it went to the loan and thus it now shows up 
in my loan account.

Thanks, Brendan.


Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
> 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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