linking transactions

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:46:59 -0300 daniel at scio.cl wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:44:38 -0400
> Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Hello Gnucash list,
> > > 
> > > I'm finding a way to register that "this transactions pays this debt",
> > > because if I have many debts and I pay many of them, is to hard to
> > > know the list of not paid debts.
> > 
> > Create an account for each debt.  Then any debt with a non-zero balance
> > is not paid off yet.
> 
> But then I will have to many accounts.

Group the debt accounts as sub-accounts under a general debt (liablity)
account.

Welcome to the world of double-entry bookkeeping...

> 

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