[GNC] Manual Documentation - Import CSV

[Adrien Monteleone]

I like the idea of:

Simple Transaction
Compound Transaction
Journal/Memorandum (optionally)

Then a 'split' is the single line item in the transaction and is either 
a debit or credit. (all transactions having at least one of each, with 
Memorandums having none/empty splits)

This would remove the 'multi-split' terminology confusion and is more of 
a convention on our part here on the list in our referencing, and I 
think I'll adopt it from here on out.

The only place I can see in the UI that might assist with this is in 
Basic Ledger View to change the text "-Split Transaction-" to say 
"-Compound Transaction-" for clarity. I'm not sure how this would affect 
translations though.

There might be a few places in the documentation to tweak as well, but I 
haven't looked it over in some time.


Regards,
Adrien

On 1/1/26 3:17 PM, Patrick James via gnucash-user wrote:
> 1. Simple Journal Entry [=standard accounting terminology for a journal entry with exactly one debit and one credit]
> 
> 2. Complex Journal Entry [=standard accounting terminology for a journal entry that has more than one debit or more than one credit; "compound journal entry" is also equally acceptable terminology]
> 
> 3. Then there is another type of entry which does not meet either definition above, and that's a "Memorandum Journal Entry" [=no debit entry, and thus no credit entry].