tracking bank service charges

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 16:02:37 EDT 2015


On 2 July 2015 at 20:27, gg <gg at mailinator.com> wrote:
> The problem for me is how to match a single bank account to many gnucash
> ones.
>
> Default configuration has a Checking Account under Current Assets, I suppose
> it is the bank account, am I right?
>
> The sales are registered as Income->Sales in the gnucash, they appear
> immediatelly in my real life bank account, so should I transfer them from
> Sales to gnucash Checking account manually? Otherwise (with no transaction
> from Sales to Checking) all recieved money are reflected in Current Assets
> account but it is impossible to pay expenses directly from Current Assets.

One of us is missing something important.  In Gnucash you should have
an account for each actual bank account, credit card acct, etc.
Usually bank charges would be a transfer from that bank account to an
expenses acct.  Have you read through the guide at
http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml

Colin


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