[GNC] accounts setup (how to duplicate same payment in two expense accounts)

[Adrien Monteleone]

Peter,

Indeed, you can have a negative account balance in a register. But any transaction and splits you enter will always be positive as the amounts will just flip columns to make that so. (a negative credit is a positive debit, and a negative debit is a positive credit)

My apologies for the note on not ’seeing red’ as I forgot that was a specific preference, and I also use a custom CSS file so I never see red negative numbers anyway even with the preference set. Apologies for the noise.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 28, 2020 w5d28, at 8:54 PM, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> I just created two independent expense accounts:
> Vacation
> Vacation fuel
> 
> If I enter a $50 debit (not credit as I originally thought), and then enter Vacation fuel as my transfer account, I get a $50.00 balance in Vacation and a $-50.00 red entry in Vacation fuel.
> 
> Peter