Virtual accounts question

[Maf. King]

On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Iain Woolf wrote:
> Hi,
>

<SNIP>

> and download my account transactions from the bank, assigning it to
> the chequing account, how do I reconcile a payment which is
> attributable to one of the virtual 'pots'?

Hi Iain,

In the reconcile dialog, there is an option to "include sub-accounts" - check 
it!

>
> For example, if I deposit $50 to the bank account which I want to
> earmark as being kept for car savings, it shows up in the chequing
> account as a $50 deposit. Do I have to add a separate transaction to
> transfer $50 from chequing to chequing:car savings?

Deposit directly into your checking:car savings account.


>
> What about a payment for a hobby purchase? If I spend $123 on my
> hobby, paying for it from my chequing account, then it will show up in
> the QIF file I download from the bank as a withdrawl of $123 from
> chequing. Where should this withdrawl go? chequing:hobby? I don't want
> to see a transfer from chequing to expenses:hobby, because I really
> want to see expenses:hobby getting the money from chequing:hobby (the
> whole reason for creating it in the first place).

Yep, transfer directly from checking:hobby
>
> If I reconcile an entry in my chequing account detailing a purchase at
> Hobbies-R-Us such that the withdrawl from chequing translates to a
> deposit in chequing:hobby, then the matching entry in chequing:hobby
> shows up as a deposit from the store. This is confusing. Have I got it
> backwards? Maybe I need to create a transaction from chequing:hobby to
> chequing for $123 and then leave the Hobbies-R-Us transactions as a
> transfer from chequing to expenses:hobby?

I think you have too many steps here...?

HTH,
Maf.