I am sure you could force such an account tree if there was some logical reason for doing so. There is one limitation however in that all accounts of a specific type are sub-accounts of one the basic top level Assets Liability Equity Income and Expense accounts. You could create any structure you like for Income accounts under that. Gnucash can accommodate closing the books and starting a new book for a succeeding accounting period, e.g. annually if it is necessary that you do that for legislative reasons for example, but you can also keep the one set books for all years which facilitates year to year comparisons. The reports structure is designed to be able to extract the necessary information for specified sub-periods of the lifetime of the set of books as required, so there would be almost no benefit and a considerable overhead in adopting such a structure. It is likely the business and some other features features might not work with that structure which would necessitate that you might have to perform many operations using manually entered transactions.
On Fri, 2026-07-24 at 12:33 -0700, Clint Chaplin wrote: > Can GnuCash handle the following account tree? > > 2025 > > 2025:2025-03 > > 2025:2025-03:Income > > 2025:2025-03:Expense > > 2025:2025-07 > > 2025:2025-07:Income > > 2025:2025-07:Expense > > 2025:2025-11 > > 2025:2025-11:Income > > 2025:2025-11:Expense > > 2025:Other > > 2025:Other:Expense > > 2025:Other:Income -- David Cousens _______________________________________________ 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.
