Beginners question, confused between real bank accounts and gnucash accounts

[Dustin Henning]

Income and expense accounts are for money that enters or leaves your 
books.  In this case, because your business and personal accounts are in 
the same file, you can (and are) treating them as if they are in the 
same books.  Assuming you don't want the business and personal accounts 
to share books, there are two simple ways to deal with this:

1) Have a separate GnuCash file for the business and the personal so 
there is no book confusion.  This way, the income on the personal will 
have to come from the income account.

2) Add an Expense:Payroll (or something similar) account for the 
business to send your salary to.  Then your personal checking account 
can separately receive the salary from Income:Salary.

Incidentally, (2) would technically still be necessary even if you took 
the (1) route.

Dustin

On 3/24/2016 1:35 PM, Nicolas Severyns wrote:
> In my account setup, I have a private checking account and a business
> checking account. Monthly, I transfer my salary from my business
> checking account into my private checking account. (in reality).
>
> I enter this transaction into Gnucash, as a transfer between private
> and business checking accounts, with description 'salary'.
>
> But I also have an Income:Salary account. How should I use that account? If
> Should create a new booking on my private checking account, sending the
> money I received
> from my business checking account to this Income:Salary account?
>
> If I do that, the checkings account bookings would not reflect my bank
> statements.
>
> I think I am confusing things, but I don't understand what exactly.
>
> Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Nicolas Severyns
>
>
>
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