Is there a way to do a 'double' split transaction?

[Manfred Usselmann]

Hi,

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:19:46 +0800
Wouter van Marle <wouter at squirrel-systems.com> wrote:

> Not very sure what you want to achieve but it sounds to me like this.
> I'm not clear about those transport cards but I assume it's something
> that you pay for and get refunded by your employer. So now I'm
> imagining you have something like this, please correct if wrong:
> 
> Gross salary earned: $1000
> deduct healthcare: $100
> deduct taxes: $100
> Net income for you: $800
> refund transport card 1: $50
> refund transport card 2: $50
> 
> For which you would get a $900 cheque ($800 for net salary; $100 for
> transport); the below is a single split transaction:
> income:salary		$1000
> expense:healthcare 		$100
> expense:tax			$100
> bank:current			$900
> assets:transport:card1	$50
> assets:transport:card2	$50
> 
> Previously when you topped up those transport cards you would have a
> transaction like:
> bank:current		$50
> assets:transport:card1		$50
> 
> Isn't that what you want to do?
 
Maybe he wants something like

 income:salary		$1000
 expense:healthcare 		$100
 expense:tax			$100
 bank:current			$900
 assets:transport:cards:card1	$50
 assets:transport:cards:card2	$50

Then assets:transport:cards would show the total of $100.

Manfred
 
> On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 08:29 -0800, alfggmb wrote:
> > Basically I have an income check from the workplace with most
> > standard deductions; ie taxes, etc. One of these is for transit
> > expense cards.  This I figured out could could be: Assets:
> > Transportation Cards: Card1[serial]# etc for each different card.
> > But each card has only a certain amount $ applied to it.  The check
> > deduction is for the total $ for all the cards combined. 
> > 
> > I want to break up this total to put a certain amount into each of
> > the cards I have with the different serial numbers, but show the
> > total deduction as on my check for this split transaction.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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