Gary wrote:
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> Your usage "no-no" is exactly what I do. Why is it a "no-no"?
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Yeah, I thought so.
When I say "no-no", I mean that there's a better, generally accepted,
design-for, method.
(Caveat: ANYONE'S use of Q is up to their individual choice. What is
good for one may not be good for the other, even if it flies in the face
of what the majority of users do. So, don't take my questioning as any
criticism...I only offer this in the spirit of allowing you to consider
what others find useful, as is the generally accepted method.)
Saying that, look at:
http://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/how-to-entering-credit-card-transactions/GEN82333.html
The basic idea Gary (hopefully that's you, I cut out a lot of the quoted
post to get to the quick) is that you enter each SPENDING (eg: charge)
transaction individually in the credit card register line by line AS YOU
OCCUR THE CHARGES. This way, you have a running total of your
outstanding credit balance, you can split individual purchases at a
single vendor, your can run accurate and more detailed reports, you
don't run the risk out running out of split lines in a transaction (I
think the limit is 30). etc.
At the end of the cycle, when you pay your bill, you can pay it using a
single payment (say from your checking) and use the account category
field to link the payment from your checking account against the credit
card account.
Does this all make sense?