bank entries

[Derek Atkins]

Christine,

Christine  via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> writes:

> Hi Dave
> My accounts are Cash, Bank, Income, various expenses, and 2 people who I pay
> money too and who pay to the bank. 
> IF I balance one of the accounts another goes wrong. All I want to do is add
> my bank and my cash and let gnucash do the rest (ie an income and
> expenditure report) but it is not working. Reading the literature I just get
> confused as I am used to DR and CR.
> Thanks anyway maybe I should look for an easier program if anyone knows of
> one

Let's take a simple example of a grocery expense; you go to Kroger and
spend $25 from Cash.  To enter this in GnuCash you would open your Cash
account register, put in the date, Kroger in the description, then
Expenses:Groceries in the transfer column, and $25 in the Credit (or
Spend, or Withdrawal) column.

Most likely your problem is that you are opening up the Cash account and
then putting the Cash account into the transfer account as well.

I hope this helps?

> Christine 

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-derek

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