No, actually I know exactly what I want to accomplish and the colored
field to make the particular transaction stand out in the register is
precisely what I want to do. That's how I work.
I already have the splits set up exactly they way they need to be. I
just don't have the specific amounts in the splits, I have approximate
amounts. If it's the loan, it's exactly the same transaction as all the
fully documented transactions, the total is the same because it's a
fixed amount, I just have a nominal placeholder for loan principle and
loan interest splits. I just want to go back and edit those later.
I DO NOT want to open yet another register every time I want to look for
transactions that need to be updated. I prefer just to skim through the
checking account register which has a variety of transactions both fully
documented and some that are awaiting documentation (final split
amounts, transaction IDs from the bank, etc.)
On 2021-12-16 10:05, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
It might perhaps be better to describe WHAT you want to accomplish
instead of asking about possibilities for the first HOW that came to
your mind. Why? Because there might be other "hows" even simpler.
On 12/16/2021 2:25 AM, AC wrote:
For example, I have a couple loans that are paid fixed amounts each
month but the split of principal and interest varies (of course). I
have automatic payments at the bank set up to pay those fixed amounts
regularly and I have a matching scheduled transaction in GnuCash that
is a placeholder for it so I know how much comes out of my checking
account. What I don't know at that moment is the split between
principal and interest.
I'll reword that -- you don't have access (in advance) to the
amortization schedule and even if you did, would not help with an
automated transaction (but would if a manual transaction_
When the payment has gone through I will check the loan records
wherever the loan is held to see how they distributed the payment and
then go back and update the splits to reflect that.
I do a similar thing for my paychecks, setting up a scheduled
transaction with an estimated amount across splits and then go back to
update the splits with the various amounts withheld from the check (I
mark these as "Deposit").
Let's stop here for a second to describe your PROCESS. In either case,
you first need to be able to have an automatic transaction (unsplit)
that you later need to go back to in order to split once you have the
information to do that. You think you need a "marker" of some sort to
find the transaction later, to mark the ones you have not yet done.
But what was the other side of the transaction?. Let's do the loan one
first. That was an automatic (scheduled) transaction, credit to your
bank account and debit to (there are always tow sides in double entry
bookkeeping) what? Let's say for am moment you had an account under
Expense with a name like "unallocated loan payments".
Every so often you look. Is the balance of this account zero? No, then
you have a loan payment you have not yet allocated to principle and
interest. Assuming enough time has passed that you have that
information, Enter split mode. Change the account "unallocated loan
payments" to "interest" and the amount to what that portion is. The
remainder will now have an account Imbalance which you change to "loan
principle".
Now THAT transaction will no longer appear in "unallocated loan
payments" << and if there are no other payments still not allocated the
balance of the account will be zero >>
In other words, the very presence of a transaction in "unallocated loan
balance" can serve as your "marker" and is the transaction you want to
split. You can do the same for your paychecks, except you would use an
account under Income "unallocated paychecks".
Michael D Novack
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