Cashflow Report on Split Transactions in Checking Accounts

[casi]

Hm, well, I checked out the link below. There is no difference to how I
use it:

I have 
- an Income:Salary 
- an Asset:Checking
- several expense accounts for receiving the taxes and deductions.

In the Income account I enter the complete paysheets for the previous
year, including gross income.
The NET transaction is one of the splits, targeting the checking
account.
Once that I close the split view, I see the gross value in the 'Income'
column.
That should all be correct.

After entering all split transactions in the income account I open the
checking account register.
I can see the transactions with the NET value in the 'Deposit' column.
Once that I open the split view I see basically the same split structure
as in the income account.
That should all be correct.

So, basically it looks the same as in the diagrams shown in the link
that you sent me.
(All account totals are as expected in the ledger view.)

Now I run the cash flow report on the income account (i.e. only
selecting the Income:Salary account) for the whole passed year 
-> I see the the accumulated net value going to the checking account
(OK)

Now I run the cash flow report on the checking account (i.e. only
selecting the Asset:Checking account) for the whole passed year
 -> I see the accumulated gross value coming from the income account
(not OK, according to my understanding).

Is it working ok for you?

-Carsten



On Sun, 2012-01-22 at 07:35 -0800, Dave Niezabitowski wrote:
> It sounds like you're classifying your split incorrectly. 
> 
> You should have your Gross amount in your ledger too. Not just your
> Net. You enter your NET in your transaction register but you also have
> an entry for your Gross.
> 
> It sounds like you should have the following Accounts
> 
> Assets:Checking
> Income:Salary(Net)
> Expenses:Taxes:FICA
> Expenses:State
> Expenses:Federal
> Expense:(Whatever other deductions you have coming from your check)
> 
> You should have an entry for both your Gross and Net if you're going
> to track your whole check. If you're only entering your NET and not
> the gross but still entering your paycheck expenses, then your totals
> won't match.
> 
> 
> Check out this entry for splits showing a paycheck
> http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/txns-registers1.html#txns-register-multiaccount
> 
>