amend transactions programmatically

[Jannick Asmus]

On 30.04.2008 13:10, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> 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.

Ok, no problem. Needless to say that I am interested in a solution 
/within/ GnuCash. Please let me know when you will have found out anything.

Best wishes,
J.