Comparison of GnuCash

[John Ralls]

On Mar 19, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Steve Fosdick <sjflists at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 
> 4. The other applications attach both a payee and a category to
> payment transactions, i.e. to whom the money was paid and for what are
> effectively two different dimensions.  When entering payments directly
> into the register for either the source of funds or the expense account
> there doesn't appear to be a structured way to do this in GnuCash.  It
> is possible, of course, to use the description to record the payee and
> the expense account to record the type of expense and, interestingly,
> the Skrooge import of GnuCash files assumes you have done that.  In
> practice this is not what I have done - for bigger purchases I have
> often put what was bought into the description too so I can find it
> again easily, for ATM transactions I have put the location of the ATM
> etc.

Remember that in Gnucash you have at least 4 places to put annotations: 
Description, Note, and the Memo for each split.

Regards,
John Ralls