GnuCash: how to enter the purchase of a corporate bond with accrued interest

[Larry Evans]

On 03/02/2015 05:55 PM, Alice Lee wrote:
> Wm   I did not get a private E-mail.  If you could send me the general
> ledger with the entries, I can tell you what needs to change.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+alee212007=satx.rr.com at gnucash.org] On Behalf
> Of Wm
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 2:13 PM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: GnuCash: how to enter the purchase of a corporate bond with
> accrued interest
> 
> Sat, 28 Feb 2015 05:31:35 <mcs8uo$9ep$1 at ger.gmane.org>  Larry Evans
> <cppljevans at suddenlink.net>
> 
>> On 02/27/2015 12:31 PM, Alice Lee wrote:
>>> The accrued interest is not an expense.  It is a receivable which 
>>> will be zeroed out when the interest is received.  The balance is income.
> 
>> I'm afraid I still do not understand.  I've tried to use such an 
>> InterestReceivable account as you suggest; however, I can't get it to 
>> work (as indicated by the screen shots in my private email to you).
> 
> I haven't seen the private stuff but I think you are now going backwards
> rather than forwards.
> 
>> Could you possibly provide more concrete information about how to 
>> accomplish this?  In the example screenshots I sent to you, the balance 
>> at year end is $1010 instead of the expected $1005.
>> I even tried making the InterestReceivable type Accounts Receivable; 
>> however, that didn't help either.
[snip]
Alice,

I tried to post to this newsgroup in reply to your latest post
on Mar. 2; however, for some reason, that reply hasn't appeared.

The private email Wm was referring to was the one I sent to:

  alee212007 at satx.rr.com

on:

  February 27, 2015 12:11 PM

Maybe you missed it or maybe, somehow, someone was masquerading
as you and I replied to them.  If so; I apologize.

Hopefully this post will appear on the gnucash.user newsgroup.

-regards,
Larry

Larry