[GNC] Split Transactions

[Adrien Monteleone]

I'm not quite following the results from your second paragraph, maybe 
screenshots could help.

But I'd think of this as a 3-split transaction.

One would show the amount debited to the account in total.
The other two would be for each type of interest, as credits to their 
respective (or the same) income account.

So if regular interest was '5' and bonus interest was '20', the 
transaction would look something like:

Dr. Savings			25
   Cr. Interest Income			5
   Cr. Bonus Interest Income		20

If you use the same Interest Income account, then simply use the Memo 
field for the detail info to distinguish the bonus payment.

Regards,
Adrien

On 9/30/20 8:53 PM, normanj wrote:
> I've been using Gnucash for a few years, but I'm far from being an expert
> user.
> 
> One of my accounts is for a savings account which pays a monthly interest
> and, subject to some conditions, a "bonus" interest payment.  The bank used
> to report these as a single monthly payment so entering these into Gnucash
> was a straightforward transaction - a assets account for the balance and an
> income account for the interest.
> 
> The bank has started reporting the base and bonus interest payments
> separately, and my first thought was to use a split transaction - two
> payments for the interest and two corresponding entries into the asset
> account.  However, when I save the transaction it is shown as two split
> transactions, each showing the same 4 numbers for both the regular and
> "bonus" interest, though the asset account balance is correct.  Any change I
> make to one transaction, including deletion, is immediately reflected in the
> other transaction.
> 
> To my inexpert eye this seems quite odd.  The only way I can see to fix this
> is to delete the impacted transactions and re-enter the "ordinary" and
> "bonus" payments separately, though as they are directly linked there is an
> obvious benefit in having everything in one transaction.
> 
> Can anyone kindly advise if this is normal behaviour and is there a better
> way to do this?  If it makes a difference I use a mac and upgraded to
> Gnucash 3.6 earlier in year (as it happens, about the same time the bank
> chnged its reporting format)
> 
> Thank you.  Despite this hiccup, I've found Gnucash to be an excellent tool.