How to create an asset with a reduced value compared to my regular currency (dollars)

[Christopher Lam]

This sounds like an overkill. I'd write the original purchase as:

Asset:Bank -$430
Asset:GiftCard: $500
Expense:Rebates -$70

Whereby Expense:Rebates generally collects anything that was purchased at a
discount, and I wish to record the original price as well as the discount.
So, a discounted laptop could be recorded as:

Asset:Bank -$900
Expense:Electronics $1000
Expense:Rebates -$100

Other strategies are valid.

On 30 November 2017 at 23:11, Mariano, Adrian V. <adrian at mitre.org> wrote:

> I bought a $500 gift card for $430 this week.  I would like to add this to
> gnucash as some kind of asset so that as I spend it, the correctly scaled
> amount gets transferred to the expense account I use.  In other words, if I
> spend $100 from this account it's really only $86.
>
> I tried to do this by creating a security fund and then using the price
> editor to set the price to 0.86.  But when I insert a transaction from the
> new account to an expense account, it doesn't apply the 0.86 factor.   What
> is the right way to do what I want to do?
>
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