Need a suggestion for getting this done:

[DaveC49]

One way to think about it is to consider the transactions which would be
involved if you were maintaining separate sets of books for your Personal
accounts and your House Accounts. You would most likely record this in
separate personal accounts as an expense to your pesonal accounts

Expense:HouseAccountContributions               Db xxxx                                               
Asset:Bank:George                                                                   
Cr xxx

and in the separate books for the House you would record it as income to the
House Account

Asset:Bank:HouseAccount                             Db xxxx
Income:PartnerContributions:George                                         
Cr xxxx

With the accounts combined in one set of books you would just create the
above transactions rather than just using a transfer from one asset account
to another as below. I.e. to get the extra detail you essentially have to
create two transactions instead of just the single transaction below.  You
can create these as a single transaction by putting the extra splits to the
expense and income accounts  to the basic transfer transaction given below

Asset:Bank:HouseAccount                             Db xxxx
Asset:Bank:George                                                                   
Cr xxx

i.e. to do it as a single transaction the splits of that transaction would. 
If the concepts of splits are not clear read the Tutorial and Concepts Guide
(https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.6/C/gnucash-guide/titlepage.html).

Asset:Bank:HouseAccount                             Db xxxx
Income:PartnerContributions:George                                         
Cr xxxx
Expense:HouseAccountContributions               Db xxxx                                               
Asset:Bank:George                                                                   
Cr xxx


David Cousens



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