"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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Lessone learned.

I probably need to draft a FAQ for this one of these days.

The category part is easy. You use the split. But the tougher part is if you
want to list all of the payees. A Money transaction allows one Payee, no
matter how many splits. This makes it hard to list ten payees for ten checks
in one split transaction.

Some choices:

1a) Ignore the payees and put them all in one split transaction.
1b) Put the payees in the memo(s) and make the Payee something like
(various).

2) "Deposit" all the checks in separate transactions to some Money account
that is not the real world Bank account. If you have a pocket change
account, for instance, this is a good place to do it. Then do a single
transfer of the total amount to the actual account where these are
deposited.

3) Ignore the fact that you deposited them in one deposit and create
multiple Money transactions. This makes it slightly more difficult to
reconcile vs. the bank statement since you have to remember that all of
these small deposits in Money add up to that large deposit on the statement.

Re. #1, since a Money Paycheck is a special type of split, if one of the
items deposited is a paycheck and you do full accounting in a Paycheck
transaction, adding other checks to this deposits probably causes more
confusion than it is worth. But you could do it. Just add them to the after
tax tab.

#3 causes grief for those who download transaction data.

"Ganamede" <microsoft[at]s89170745.onlinehome.us> wrote in message
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Since you can not have splits on each of the items I have found that
when I deposit loan payment checks along with other checks, I first
"deposit" them individually into my cash account. Then I make a real
transfer/deposit from the cash account of the collection of checks to
the bank account. For a while I actually made two deposits at the bank
ATM machine to separate out the loan paymnet.

It is possible that you can use the split to identify the various checks
and the budsget categories, but depending how you handle your paycheck
it may be difficult.

Ganamede wrote:
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I deposited a bunch of checks together. How do I break out that deposit to
show that it's multiple checks (and have the appropriate budget categories
credited).