nomenclatural clarification - parts of a transaction

D sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 14 12:49:41 EDT 2017


George,

A transaction will have a note always.

A transaction in Gnucash by definition has at least two splits, but may have more. Common usage is to refer to a transaction with *more* than two splits as a "split" transaction. Chapter 2 in the guide covers this.

HTH,
David

On September 14, 2017, at 9:13 PM, George Riner <georgeriner at mycogeo.com> wrote:

I may not be clearly following the information about the names of the 
parts of a transaction.

attached screen capture for reference.

Are these the correct terms for the called-out parts of the split 
transaction?

part "A" is the "Description"
part "B" is the "Memo"
parts "C" are each a "Note"

followup question:

If it is not a split transaction, is there no "Note" field at all?

:George
Gnucash 2.6.17
Windows 10





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