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Under the top level account structure of Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Income, Expenses you can create any account names you like or need to so having Expense accounts named Needs or Wants with whatever substructure you desire underneath that is no major problem. You will just need to create the structure you desire rather than use the default account structures that Gnucash supplied when you set up your books. Accounts can be deleted and any transactions to them reassigned to another account at any stage. I currently don't use the budgeting features so someone else may be able to comment on how to restrict the budget report to specific account levels. Most of the reports structure has options which can be set under the Edit->Report Options menu entry. My guess is you will be able to specify what level of accounts are reported and which are included in balances in the options settings. All accounts generally sum any subaccount balances together with the balance of any transactions directly into the account itself. You would generally specifiy any account which has subaccounts as a placeholder account which prevents transactions being allocated directly to it (but does not remove any already existing transactions AFAIK if you change it to a placeholder after transactions have been assigned). Look up the help manual section on creating and editing accounts for more guidance. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
