how to handle different expenses in a single transaction

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:18:04 +0000 Girard Aquino <girardaquino at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi! I was wondering whether it was possible to monitor the expenses on 
> different accounts that was charged/taken from a single transaction. For 
> example, i would get charged for 150 for a transaction in my credit card 
> or debit. However, that transaction should be broken down into its 
> respectful account so that i would be able to monitor correctly the 
> monthly expenses for each account. for example : 50 for Computer, 50 for 
> groceries, 50 for clothing. How do I go about this in gnucash? i tried 
> to play around with the split transaction feature, but have no idea what 
> this is used for, nor did i achieve the results i wanted to have. i 
> would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to handle these kinds of 
> transactions. thank you.

You do in fact create a split.  Generally, you will have several
accounts, one for each type of expense.  You would 'debit' 150 (the
total) from the credit card account and then open the split.  You would
create a line item for each expense and 'credit' each expense with the
amount of each expense.  Something like this (as viewed from the CC
account): 

Date         Num      Description         Transfer         R Pay   Char Bal
10/20/2008            Shopping Trip                          150        900
		      Computer Parts      Expense:Computer n        50
		      groceries           Expense:Food     n        50
		      clothing            Expense:Clothing n        50
		                          Liability:VISA   n 150    

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