[GNC] Split Transactions

[Norman Jessup]

Thanks David,

I tried aggregating the two amounts on the asset side and, as you 
suggest, it resulted in a single entry in the asset register. However, 
the duplicate entries in the Income register remain.

As this is an artefact (bug?) of GnuCash I decided that the only thing 
to do is to use separate transactions for the base and bonus interest 
payments.  This still results in two transactions per month, but at 
least the  numbers themselves are not duplicated, and I can give the two 
transactions different labels for identification.

Thanks again for your feedback.

On 2/10/20 8:18 am, David Carlson wrote:
> Normanj,
> What you are seeing is a normal artifact of GnuCash that appears when 
> there is more than one split line for the account in which you are 
> viewing the transaction.  If you 'jump' to another account in the 
> transaction, you will see as many transactions as there are split 
> lines for that account. Usually you will only enter a single net 
> amount on the asset side for the sum of the incomes, then there would 
> only be one transaction in the asset register view.
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 4:41 PM normanj <njessup42 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:njessup42 at gmail.com>> 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.
>
>
>
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