[Kmymoney] Withdraving from multiple accounts

[aga]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:33:11 +0200
Mikael Kujanpaa <mahead80 at nic.fi> wrote:

> I remember this is somehow possible to achieve, but for some reason
> my brains can't discover the correct way how to book single
> transaction with splits that takes money from two accounts and
> distributes it for multiple categories.
> 
> For example, I have receipt where is multiple items. The payment has
> been done partly from my bank account and partly from gift card that
> I had. The gift card is just one account in my bookings.
> 
> So how should I enter this kind of transaction?
> 
> Category A		15,00 e
> Catebory B		17,50 e
> Category C		12,50 e
> --------------------------
> Total              45,00 e
> 
> Giftcard         - 10,00 e
> 
> Total Payment      35,00 e
> 
> Currently I have booked these kind of transactions just by doing
> separate transactions for each account: I do one transaction for my
> bank account with amount of 35,00 e, and other for giftcard account
> with amount of 10,00 e. But this doesn't work with reports, since
> there are of course displayed separate transactions with amounts that
> doesn't directly exists. And that is, because giftcard is only ten
> euros, so some transaction must be splitted for giftcard with amount
> of ten euros and for other transaction with the rest of the sum.
> 
> The real life situation here is, that "Category C" is actually loan
> account (I bought something for my friend that is supposed to be paid
> back to me). Now if I try to examine single loan transactions through
> reports, it's pretty hard since given numbers must be summed up
> before they make any sense against existing receipts.
> 
> I hope you understood what I meant, since this feels a bit complex to
> explain. :)
> 
> Mikki

If no-one-else has a better idea, my simplistic approach might be to do
a transfer from the gift-card account to the checking account first.
Then, you are left with a simple purchase transaction.

Allan