> How many "classes" can be assigned to the same account? In other words, can an account be a member of many different "classes"? If that is not possible, if only one, then it should be obvious why an accountant would find pretty useless.
Rest assured, classes have nothing directly to do with accounts. Transaction for each class can contain many accounts and those accounts can occur in other classes. Classes are assigned to transaction records which can be split for the purpose of assigning classes like they are for accounts. Quickbooks can only have one class per record but, as noted in https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772#c6, classes would be much more powerful if they were multidimensional. The bug report has many examples, mainly around managing entity enterprise diversity. Consider a contrived example of an entity with an account for diesel and classes assigned to: farming, trucking and generator. * an accountant might be interested in different taxes for on-road, off-road, and electricity generation use * a manager might be interested in cost of electricity production to assess the viability of solar PV The first scenario is best served with a grouped report, say profit and loss, with the same total as current reports. It is especially useful where many (but not all) of the accounts occur in one class. The second scenario would best use a filtered report by [electricity] generation class. Classes are nearly always auto-assigned to transactions in Quickbooks after first use. The reports wouldn't need to be set up or saved (just use class option), and they could include all accounts for the class, not just diesel. > _______________________________________________ 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.
