Reorder Sub Accounts?

[Christopher Lam]

How about setting Account Codes properly? Here's a snapshot of my chart of
accounts:

Assets 001
Liabilities 002
Income 003
Expenses 004
-Bank charges 0041
-Entertainment 0042

Then you click on the "Account Code" column to sort alphabetically.


On 6 May 2013 12:08, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

> Ian Konen wrote:
>
>  Can I reorder the display of sub-accounts in the chart of accounts?  I've
>> got quite a few expense accounts and they're not quite in alphabetical,
>> order which makes it somewhat hard to navigate.  GnuCash 2.4.11 on Windows
>> 7.
>>
>>
>>
> "Tag" the names.  This is a trick most programmer types know for
> controlling collating sequence (how things get sorted).
>
> In other words, you want these things:   wxtra,  arocab, and doxter sorted
> in that order. So you rename them to  a-wxtra,  d-arocab, and g-doxtor. Or
> as is more common in accounting, use a numerical prefix in the name so that
> might be 0010-wxtra,  0020-arocab, 0030-doxtor. Later when editing for
> "pretty printing" reports you can remove the prefixes though for reports
> where a treasurer has to report to a board the numerical prefixes come in
> handy.
>
> Michael
>
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