[GNC] Newbie: Gnucash credit card payment transactions don't make sense

[Deborah Robson]

I’ve reviewed the concepts and tutorial and spent a couple of days trying to figure out what’s going on with payments from ASSET:CHECKING to CREDIT CARD accounts. This is happening with both credit cards, but I have three examples from the same account. I have attempted to make payments on the cards by (1) in the checking account transfer field, specifying the destination credit card account; (2) using the “transfer” button in the top bar; (3) manually correcting the entries in both affected accounts (this tends to be least successful, not that the others were).

I have screenshots for all three examples but apparently cannot attach more than a couple. The ones below are example #1.

What am I doing wrong? ? ? ? ?

#1: 
Checking account payments correctly reduce value of asset account.
In credit card account, payments INCORRECTLY increase the amount owed, and should decrease it.

#2:
Checking account payment INCORRECTLY increases the value of the asset account, and should decrease it.
In credit card account, payment correctly decreases the amount owed.

#3:
Like #2, checking account payment INCORRECTLY increases the value of the asset account, and should decrease it.
Like #2, credit account payment correctly decreases the amount owed.

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