[Kmymoney] Credit card usage

David Houlden djhoulden at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 16:53:31 UTC 2012


What Alvaro said is correct. On the home page under liability accounts you 
should see a negative balance. In the ledger it should show a positive 
balance.

Regards,
Dave.

On Friday 20 January 2012 12:52:27 Edney Matias wrote:
> Hello Alvaro.
> 
> I created the card using the wizard, i entered a positive value, in the
> dashboard it shows a positive value on the liability side but opening the
> specific account the balance is negative. I think it's all right.
> 
> But what about the split payment?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Em sexta-feira, 20 de janeiro de 2012, Alvaro Soliverez escreveu:
> > Hello Matias,
> > to be clear, a credit card should have a positive balance if you owe
> > money. The beauty of double-entry accounting.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Alvaro
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Edney Matias
> > <edneymatias at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi there.
> > > 
> > > I've create a credit card account with $1000 (-$1000 indeed) of open
> > 
> > balance
> > 
> > > and absolut limit. If i buy a bicycle for $100 i will throw a charge of
> > 
> > that
> > 
> > > value, right? The final balance will be -$900.  But what if i had split
> > 
> > that
> > 
> > > value in two payments of equal value. In the first month i would have a
> > > charge of $50 and the balance would be -$950. I can then, add a
> > > scheduled transaction to reminds me of the remaining payment. But the
> > > balance is wrong, the right balance would be -$900. How can I automate
> > > that
> > 
> > situation
> > 
> > > in KMyMoney?
> > > 
> > > Thank you.
> > > 
> > > 


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