Splits in Cash Flow report

[Nowl]

Sorry to follow up my own post, but please, can anyone comment or help 
with this? To me, incorrectly reported transactions seems a really 
serious flaw, especially as it's not my own money. . . if it's something 
I'm doing wrong, I'd be very grateful to know.

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>Hello everyone
>
>I'm fairly new to GnuCash, so please excuse me if this is a silly 
>question, but I can't work out what is going wrong.
>
>I use GC to do the accounts for a small charity and recently had to 
>make up the end-of-year reports. I noticed something odd happening with 
>Cash Flow reports and split transactions.
>
>An example: I wrote a cheque withdrawing money from the current bank 
>account to reimburse a committee member. This was split between the 
>Exoenses:Meetings account (for refreshments) and 
>Expenses:Newsletter:Postage account (for buying stamps). Everything 
>shows correctly within GnuCash and the summary line correctly shows the 
>split amount for whichever account is being viewed.
>
>But the Cash Flow report is only correct if run for the account the 
>money was actually taken from (current bank account). If run for 
>Expenses:Newsletter:Postage, it shows the total for the entire 
>transaction coming in to this account, then the amount assigned to the 
>Meetings sub-account going out. Similarly, Cash Flow for 
>Expenses:Meetings shows the whole amount coming in, and this account 
>"paying" the Postage account, which it would never be used for!
>
>Have I done something wrong, or is this a peculiarity of the way GC 
>handles splits? I'd be very grateful for any pointers.
>

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Nina