[GNC] How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:41:27PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote:
> 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.
> 
Here's the headers:-

    Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:25:33 +0100
    From mairix at mairix Mon Jan  1 12:34:56 1970
    From: Paul Feakins <paul at antropy.co.uk>
    To: Chris Green <chris at isbd.co.uk>
    Subject: Re: How to record 'balancing' trnsactions?
    X-source-folder: /home/chris/mail/In/inbox/cur/1689168337.M577883P1473824Q1.esprimo:2,S

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Chris Green