[GNC] Car loan with downpayment using a credit card

[Adrien Monteleone]

When you imported transactions, were the downpayment(s) not part of that download?

If so, how were they assigned on the other end of the transaction at import?

Something that might help, if you aren’t already using it, is to turn on Transaction Journal view in the View menu. You can also set this as a default setting from Preferences. This will show you all splits in all transactions at all times. One split will always be for the current account register you are viewing, the others will be for the other side(s) of the transaction.

For each downpayment, you should have something similar to:

Cr.	Assets:Checking OR Liabilities:Credit Card
Dr.	Liabilities:Car Loan

Thus the three credit card payments would offset the Car Loan liability with increases (credits) to the respective Credit Card liabilities, and the Cheque would reflect a decrease (credit) in your checking account.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 3, 2019, at 7:06 PM, Taymour A. El Erian <telerian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am very new to GNUCash so bear with me. I have setup my assets (bank
> accounts, Car) and also my liabilities (Car loan, Credit Cards) and
> imported all the transactions from my banking institutions and credit cards
> too. I added the Car (asset and loan) later to the setup and now struggling
> to get the down payment made for the car to show under the asset.
> I made the down payment using 3 different cards and a cheque. As I said I
> added the car loan later after setting everything up and all accounts are
> balanced. Now I am trying to get those few months old down payment
> transactions to show as split under the asset so that my liability would be
> (total value - down payment - payments). Any help
> 
> 
> 
> *Taymour*
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