[GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

[Paul Feakins]

On 12/07/2023 16:35, Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote:
>> On 12/07/2023 15:44, Stan Brown wrote:
>>> On 2023-07-12 05:19, Paul Feakins wrote:
>>>> Why would you have 2 separate instances of GnuCash rather than simply 2
>>>> Asset accounts?
>>> What he said.
>>>
>>> And I'll just add that when you have two independent sets of books,
>>> sooner or later they're going to fall out of sync through human error,
>>> and then you'll have a bigger mess.
>>>
>>> Stan Brown
>>> Tehachapi, CA, USA
>>> https://BrownMath.com
>> Indeed. Plus the asker didn't copy in the list but replied to me
>> directly asking "Why not?"
>>
>> I replied with:
>>
>> Because the Church is one entity and it owns both accounts?
>>
>> Because GnuCash is designed to handle multiple Asset accounts?
>>
>> Because opening 2 instances is more complicated than opening just one?
>>
>> Because a transfer from one account to the other would be easier in the
>> same instance?
>>
> Because you E-Mailed me directly!
>
> Thanks for all the help everbody!

Nope, I replied to the list, gnucash-user at gnucash.org, as one should.

Anyway, using an instance of GnuCash per bank account is not an intended 
use case.