I think of personal travel as discretionary. You decide to go on what I would call vacation and what the English would call holiday.
Generally, I think of public transportation is such things as day trips around town, commuting, etc. Just having come back from vacation, I was bringing my accounts up to date yesterday, and I made a choice to move travel out from under entertainment to a top level expense, and create subcategories for lodging, restaurant, fuel, air and rail transportation, etc. This allowed me to produce a very nice report showing what our trip cost and why. On the other hand, if I took the bus downtown, I would have a category for that outside of travel. The most important question though is how do your books serve you, as opposed to how do you serve your books. Record things that make sense in understanding your finances. Ed On Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 05:33 rsbrux via gnucash-user < [email protected]> wrote: > I just noticed that I have two overlapping expense accounts, "Public > Transportation" and "Travel". I think that both accounts were in the > default GnuCash account tree, but "Public Transportation" is not a sub- > account of "Travel", which is what I would have expected. > We live in Europe and often travel by train and/or bus for both short > distances and on vacation, so I'm not sure where to draw the line > between these two. > What arguments can be made for and against maintaining two such > separate categories? > _______________________________________________ > 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.
