Confused on a split deposit transaction with cash back

[prl]

At that resolution, I can't really make out what the transactions are. 
And perhaps it's for the best. I'd be reluctant to post a full page of 
my personal accounting information like that. Try editing it down to 
just show the relevant transactions, and post it in a higher resolution.

In any case, the question to ask is "where is that $100 going": it must 
go into some account.

I use a Wallet Asset account for our personal cash holdings. Cash (from 
any source) goes into the Wallet account (and cash spending comes out of 
it). So that's where that $100 would go in my account setup. It means I 
can keep track of cash spending as well as transactions from our banking 
accounts.

For business accounting, the cash account might be "Petty cash" or "Cash 
in hand" or similar.

If you don't want to keep a Wallet Asset account or similar, you'll need 
a "Cash I can't be bothered accounting for" Expense account. The $100 
(and any other things like ATM withdrawals) could go into that. What 
account to you put ATM withdrawals into, anyway?

Peter

On 19/01/2017 08:44, kaloa wrote:
> I'm very new to both accounting and Gnucash, I can not get this to
> work....I've got 2 seperate checks, with 100 cash taken at time of deposit.
>
> bonus check for         667.63
> regular paycheck for 1032.98
> Total                       1700.61
> Cashback                  100.00
>
> If I use the 1700.61 total without accounting for the cashback, I'm 100 off
> in my register, the bank only shows 1600.61 as the actual deposit..how to
> account for the 100 cash? The 100 cash keeps popping into both columns..
> <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/n4689022/Screenshot_2017-01-18_15.png>
>
>
> For now I've given up on sorting it and just put in a 1600.61 deposit
>
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