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

[Wouter van Marle]

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 09:25 +0100, Manfred Usselmann wrote:
> 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.

Could be... but that afaik can only be done by making two transactions.
First a total of $100 to assets:transport:cards and then a separate
transaction that distributes it over the cards.

Wouter.

> 
> 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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