This is an approach that I have used for tracking multiple profit centers,
Expense March F&B AV Meeting rooms July
F&B AV Meeting rooms Nov
F&B AV Meeting roomsIncome March Income
July Income Nov Income
With the above setup, the months serve as the tags. If need be, the income
accounts can be grouped with the expense accounts as Contra Accounts. When
reporting, use the Income Statement(Multicolumn option under the Income &
Expense group of reports. While in the report, you might want to click on
Options and play around with them to see what works best for you. For example,
I usually use a monthly period duration to see the expenses evolve over time,
but some groups like weekly.
Kirk
On Saturday, July 25, 2026 at 02:35:47 PM PDT, Michael or Penny Novack via
gnucash-user <[email protected]> wrote:
On 7/25/2026 12:36 PM, Clint Chaplin wrote:
> Why? tl;dr: to implement the missing ability to have "job
> costing"/"tagging".
>
> Longer explanation: I keep the books for a group that has three
> meetings a year, in March, July, and November. Everything is focused
> on those three meetings, and very little happens (financially) outside
> of those meetings. At one point we had the ability to keep finances
> on a system that implemented tagging, and it was glorious!
> Unfortunately, the parent organization changed finance software
> several times since then, and none of the replacements have tagging.
>
You want to be able to report on each of these, yes? Just se up your
tree so that your will be able to run the reports.
YOU can "set tags" as part of the account's name. You have room rent for
all three events? Then you have an account (under expense) with room
rent (placeholder) having three children, event1-room-rent, event2
-room-rent, event3-room-rent. You can run a "statement of Revenues and
expenses" for each even JUST including accounts with names starting
event1, event2, event3.
Michael D Novack
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