Need a suggestion for getting this done:

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 12/31/2016 8:43 AM, VotedMostPolite wrote:
> David,
>
>    Thank you for your post ... I did the double split however, although the
> transactions show up in partner contribution, the end result is a zero
> balance in that account.   I think that your first suggestion, keeping the
> books separate, is the better idea and one that I came up with anyway.
> Probably the same amount of work with less headache.
It is going to be SIMPLER for you to use separate books.

You would have to be more experienced with double entry bookkeeping to 
do it "partitioned" within a single set of books. That is why I did not 
go into HOW to continue the way you started. It was pretty obvious to me 
the sort of mistake you were making to end up with zero in "partner 
contributions" but that this was a fundamentals of double entry problem, 
not a gnucash problem << except that at this point I don't think you are 
up to split transactions that are split on both sides >>

Michael D Novack