[GNC] Why is part of a split registered as "rebate" in the Transfer account?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

> Thanks anyways - probably it's best for me not to try and put 
> everything from this sale into one transaction (with multiple splits). 
> I'm not understanding how to make it work :-(
> It will look weird, but I could enter 3 transactions of "income" into 
> my checking account: 800 (which I use to "zero" the value of my 
> instrument), 35,49 (for the shipping) and a third one which goes into 
> my "gain"... What do you think?

Often you can get around having to do a split transact by using more 
than one. For example, sell an item of inventory (basis X) for Y you 
could do two transactions. One: Debit cash and credit sales Y. Two: 
Debit cost of goods sold and credit inventory batch X. Clunky, but easy.

However, that was a special case. In general, the debits and credits 
need not be the same (just total debits = total credits). So if that had 
been debits of 6 and 4 and credits of 7 and 3 going to have to do it 
with a split transaction.


Michael D Novack