[GNC] Transaction inconsistency when deleting account

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 9/3/2023 5:57 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On 2023-09-03 12:12, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
>> Each of those transactions in the CC account you are deleting had
>> another account associated with it (at least one other account, could be
>> more if a "split").
> I am not familiar with your usage of the word "split", but I don't think
> it's standard for GnuCash.

A "split transaction" --- entered by starting the transaction and then 
hitting the "split" button. This switches to "journal mode" thus 
allowing you to enter a transaction that affects more than just two 
accounts.

Note that entering transactions first with a "journal" entry is what we 
old timers used to do for all transactions (even those affecting just 
two accounts) unless we had a subsection of the ledger set up for 
"cashbook accounting" where "popular" transactions affecting just this 
subset were entered directly into the ledger with no journal entry. In 
practice that might be >90% of transactions saving a lot of time and 
reducing the chance of error (during the "posting" process).

Essentially gnucash is using "cashbook accounting" where the subset is 
the entire ledger when the transaction only affects two accounts.

Michael D Novack