On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:41:27PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > On 12/07/2023 16:35, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Paul Feakins wrote: > >> On 12/07/2023 15:44, Stan Brown wrote: > >>> On 2023-07-12 05:19, Paul Feakins wrote: > >>>> Why would you have 2 separate instances of GnuCash rather than simply 2 > >>>> Asset accounts? > >>> What he said. > >>> > >>> And I'll just add that when you have two independent sets of books, > >>> sooner or later they're going to fall out of sync through human error, > >>> and then you'll have a bigger mess. > >>> > >>> Stan Brown > >>> Tehachapi, CA, USA > >>> https://BrownMath.com > >> Indeed. Plus the asker didn't copy in the list but replied to me > >> directly asking "Why not?" > >> > >> I replied with: > >> > >> Because the Church is one entity and it owns both accounts? > >> > >> Because GnuCash is designed to handle multiple Asset accounts? > >> > >> Because opening 2 instances is more complicated than opening just one? > >> > >> Because a transfer from one account to the other would be easier in the > >> same instance? > >> > > Because you E-Mailed me directly! > > > > Thanks for all the help everbody! > > Nope, I replied to the list, gnucash-user@gnucash.org, as one should. > Here's the headers:-
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:25:33 +0100 From mairix@mairix Mon Jan 1 12:34:56 1970 From: Paul Feakins <p...@antropy.co.uk> To: Chris Green <ch...@isbd.co.uk> Subject: Re: How to record 'balancing' trnsactions? X-source-folder: /home/chris/mail/In/inbox/cur/1689168337.M577883P1473824Q1.esprimo:2,S -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.