Brook The closest you can get with GnuCash is to have separate subaccounts for each entity under each of the top level accounts.
David Cousens On Sat, 2024-09-07 at 12:10 -0600, Brook Milligan via gnucash-user wrote: > I am trying to create a book that includes within it records for two > top-level entities that are closely coupled. For example, consider > Family and Sole Proprietor. Within each, I of course want the normal > subaccounts (assets, liabilities, equity, expenses, income) with > their various subaccounts. > > When creating a new top level account, I am forced to give it a > category, which dictates the possible categories that subaccounts may > use. This clearly makes it impossible to accomplish what I need > (which was a suggested solution given here a few weeks ago). > > It seems that it should be possible to create a new top level account > that has no category associated with it and allows any categories to > be applied to subaccounts. > > Is this possible? Am I understanding the limitations of GC > correctly? > > Thanks for your help. > > Cheers, > Brook > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
