Enter wipes out half of transaction

[E Rosenberg]

I am tying to reply to all your replies in 1 email....

#1
 For example if I buy some groceries using my
checking account, the transaction as I enter it looks like:

                               Deposit          Withdrawal
Expenses:Groceries  10.00
Accounts:Checking                        10.00

Once I hit <Enter> and move to the next transaction, it looks like

Expenses:Groceries  10.00

Data is still there, you just don't see it unless the transaction is
"active".

Fine, but it would be better at my end if I could see both halves

#2

Using gnucash you are entering directly into the LEDGER. The JOURNAL
is implicit/virtual.  I am saying this because in old fashioned
bookkeeping one DID first enter the transaction into the JOURNAL where
you would be entering both sides -- and those two lines would later be
posted into the LEDGER ---- hence the possibility that a little bit of
knowledge about double entry bookkeeping (the old fashioned way) might
be confusing you. Computerized accounting software COULD have been
designed that way (enter into JOURNAL plus automatic posting) but as
far as I know ALL do it more like "cashbook accounting" (no journal,
well not an explicit journal)

Why couldn't  it be simpler??!!!!

All that being said, is there any way I can see both halves?

Ethan



#3

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 9:14 AM, farleykj <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:
> <Enter> isn't "wiping out" your last entry, it's just the interface. It
> closes the transaction down to only show the part of the split that refers
> to the other account affected. If you click on the transaction again, the
> splits are once again shown. For example if I buy some groceries using my
> checking account, the transaction as I enter it looks like:
>
>                                Deposit          Withdrawal
> Expenses:Groceries  10.00
> Accounts:Checking                        10.00
>
> Once I hit <Enter> and move to the next transaction, it looks like
>
> Expenses:Groceries  10.00
>
> Data is still there, you just don't see it unless the transaction is
> "active".
>
>
>
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