CREDIT CARD OPENING BALANCE

[Derek Atkins]

I have an Assets:Cash account.  When I make an ATM withdrawal I
transfer from Assets:Checking to Assets:Cash.  Then as I spend
my cash I transfer from Assets:Cash to Expenses:<whatever>

Periodically I count the cash in my wallet and "reconcile" with
what GnuCash thinks I should have and I'll add a "Balancing"
expense transaction to fix it all up.

-derek

Quoting Xeena Wallington <xeena at tiscali.co.za>:

> I wonder if you can help with this one.
>
> When I withdraw cash from the bank for expenses, I want to record 
> that withdrawal, but then allocate the various things I buy, e.g. 
> R400 petrol, R300 groceries, etc.  I am finding it difficult to do 
> this and still see the amount of the cash withdrawal in the register, 
> without looking at the splits, so when it comes to reconciling with 
> the bank statement I have to look at the splits each time.
>
> Is there an easier way of managing cash withdrawals that are spent on 
> various items which need to be recorded separately.  I read somewhere 
> that Gnu Cash is more user friendly than Quicken, but in this 
> instance I have to disagree.
>
> Perhaps I am doing it wrong.
>
> Thanks
> Xeena Wallington
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> To: "Xeena Wallington" <xeena at tiscali.co.za>
> Cc: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:39 PM
> Subject: Re: CREDIT CARD OPENING BALANCE
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> "Xeena Wallington" <xeena at tiscali.co.za> writes:
>>
>>> Thanks, but I don't know what LC_COLLATE means and where to find it -
>>> sorry for my ignorance!
>>
>> LC_COLLATE is an environment variable.  You set it like you'd set
>> any other environment variable --- in your environment.  man bash(1)
>>
>>> If you could let me know how to carry out this procedure it would be
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> bash% env LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF8 gnucash &
>>
>>> I have put the opening balance as a payment as you suggested and the
>>> register seems to look ok.  Will reconcile and see if it works.
>>> Thanks again.
>>> Xeena
>>
>> You're welcome.
>>
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>> -derek
>>
>> -- 
>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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>
>



-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available