amend transactions programmatically

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:18:42 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz <gnucash at numerixtechnology.de>:
> 
> > I have hundreds of split transactions, which I would like to
> > "unsplit":
> >
> > 1 split transaction: net interest + tax = gross interest
> >
> > =>
> >
> > 1 debit gross interest
> > 2 credit tax
> 
> You're not showing the full transaction here, only half.  What's the
> other half look like?   How did these transactions get created?  And
> why do you want to turn them into multiple transactions?

see
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2008-April/024985.html

I have:
Assets:Bank:Account
Income:Interest
Liability:Tax

At the moment, I am recoding gross interest - tax deduction as a split
resulting in net interest in Assets:Bank:Account.

With this set-up, I cannot produce the Transaction Report I need (see
thread above). I want to be able to list the total gross interest per
bank account for a fiscal year, and likewise the total tax deducted per
bank account.

As far as I can see, I would be able to achieve this if I changed the
way I record interest to:

t1 - gross interest: Assets:Bank:Account <=> Income:Interest
t2 - tax deduction: Assets:Bank:Account <=> Liability:Tax


> > I have looked at the XML data file. One should be able to do the
> > change programmatically. The only problem I can see is the id
> > string.
> 
> You could write a small program to do it, either in C or Scheme,
> using the GnuCash API.  The pseudo-code would look something like:
> ...

Thanks for the tip.


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Best Regards,

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz


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