[GNC] Should GNUCash allow a split to reference the same account twice

[R. Victor Klassen]

Just to add one more instance, the business features, regularly do this, when entering a bill or invoice.  

10 items on an invoice/bill could correspond to as many as 10 different income/expense accounts, or as few as one.  Once the transaction has been posted, (one transaction per invoice/bill), you can look it up and find one split per line item, and these may all be to the same account, or not, depending on whether they should.

> On Jul 20, 2023, at 2:35 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes.  I do it monthly in some accounts where I make a minimum payment on a
> loan and separately add an additional amount.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 1:18 PM Henry Law <news at lawshouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> Earlier today my wife was running GNUCash to update "her" bit of the
>> accounts and got into a serious tangle because she (inadvertently)
>> changed a newly-imported transaction so that its two splits -- which
>> should have been our current account and her credit card account --
>> both referred to the credit card account.  She then reconciled one half
>> and not the other, which caused a cascade of issues which took me
>> several hours and a manual edit to the GNUCash file to fix.
>> 
>> Should GNUCash refuse to allow a transaction to have two splits into
>> the same account?  My knowledge of accounting is scant, but with it I
>> can't see why one would ever legitimately do that.
>> 
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