amend transactions programmatically

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:34:02 +0200
Jannick Asmus <jannick.news at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tarlika,
> 
> On 30.04.2008 00:26, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:18:42 -0400
> > Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > 
> >> Quoting Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz <gnucash at numerixtechnology.de>:
> >>
> >>> I have hundreds of split transactions, which I would like to
> >>> "unsplit":
> > 
> > I have:
> > Assets:Bank:Account
> > Income:Interest
> > Liability:Tax
> > 
> > At the moment, I am recoding gross interest - tax deduction as a
> > split resulting in net interest in Assets:Bank:Account.
> > 
> > ...
> > (see thread above). I want to be able to list the total gross
> > interest per bank account for a fiscal year, and likewise the total
> > tax deducted per bank account.
> > 
> > As far as I can see, I would be able to achieve this if I changed
> > the way I record interest to:
> > 
> > t1 - gross interest: Assets:Bank:Account <=> Income:Interest
> > t2 - tax deduction: Assets:Bank:Account <=> Liability:Tax
> > 
> 
> Do you need it within GC or would be some routine in Excel fine with
> you?
> 
> I am asking this, since I do my gross/tax/net transactions as splits
> as well and I need to export all my transactions out of GC for my tax 
> accountant. She - or rather her program - expects my data on a gross 
> basis, such that I had to eliminate all the tax splits. If some 
> (relative to GC) external solution would be helpful for you, just
> give me a shout.


Many thanks for your kind offer.But I would really prefer to be able to
produce a GnuCash report.




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Best Regards,

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz


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