[GNC] Confused Entering A Refund To Credit Card Account

[Jack Frillman]

At first I was doing that.


On 3/30/21 4:37 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I bet you hit the enter key...  That causes the transaction to commit.
> You should use the arrow keys or tab keys to move around the multi-split
> transaction until you're done.
>
> -derek
>
> On Tue, March 30, 2021 4:06 pm, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
>> I tried adding the minus sign and I still got the Unbalanced-USD thing
>> but that doesn't I was doing it correctly.
>> Entering these split transactions had been the biggest issue I have
>> encountered switching to GNUCash.
>>
>> On 3/30/21 3:37 PM, Maf. King wrote:
>>> Purchased in error, rather than data-entry error.  ;-)
>>>
>>> I will note another possible way to flip the columns - just put a - sign
>>> in
>>> before the value, then on tabbing-out of the column it will flip to the
>>> other
>>> side (and lose the minus sign!).
>>>
>>> Maf.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:16:17 BST Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
>>> wrote:
>>>> In the world I worked in before retiring there can be different kinds
>>>> of
>>>> errors and they are often handled differently. That may not apply in
>>>> accounting but it's my old habits and instincts kicking in.
>>>> So, I don't consider a refund an error but a kind normal transaction.
>>>> An error has a completely different meaning to me.
>>>>
>>>> On 3/30/21 2:04 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>>>>> Is one kind of error different from others?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 12:08 PM Jack Frillman via gnucash-user
>>>>>
>>>>> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>> wrote:
>>>>>       I never considered that option since the GNUCash documentation
>>>>>       describes
>>>>>       it for correcting errors.
>>>>>
>>>>>       On 3/30/21 12:49 PM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:
>>>>>       > There’s another, even easier IMO, option to select the Reverse
>>>>>
>>>>>       Transaction
>>>>>
>>>>>       > option. That will duplicate the transaction and flip the
>>>>> amounts
>>>>>
>>>>>       at the
>>>>>
>>>>>       > same time.
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > Robin
>>>>>       >
>>>>>       > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:57 AM Cam Ellison <cam at ellisonet.ca
>>>>>
>>>>>       <mailto:cam at ellisonet.ca>> wrote:
>>>>>       >> On 2021-03-30 8:43 a.m., Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
>>>>>       >>> I'm trying to enter a refund split transaction to a credit
>>>>> card
>>>>>       >>> account and every time I do I get an Imbalance-USD amount.
>>>>>
>>>>>       (see screen
>>>>>
>>>>>       >>> shots below)
>>>>>       >>> Why is this happening?
>>>>>       >>
>>>>>       >> Screenshots don't work.
>>>>>       >>
>>>>>       >> Easiest way for me to do the reversal is to duplicate the
>>>>>
>>>>>       transaction
>>>>>
>>>>>       >> and then cut-and-paste each amount from one side of the
>>>>>
>>>>>       register to the
>>>>>
>>>>>       >> other. Don't use <Enter>. If you use arrow keys or <Tab> to
>>>>>
>>>>>       move between
>>>>>
>>>>>       >> fields nothing will change, but the imbalance will show at the
>>>>>
>>>>>       bottom -
>>>>>
>>>>>       >> with no account assigned.
>>>>>       >>
>>>>>       >> HTH
>>>>>       >>
>>>>>       >> Cam
>>>>>       >>
>>>>>       >>
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