New account type

[Geert Janssens]

First off: is there a reason your wife is not entering her expenses starting from the credit 
card/bank accounts she's using ?

I mean has she tried this:
Get all the expenses together for one bank account (usually that comes in the form of a bank 
statement). Open the bank account's register and start entering expense after expense. 
When finished with that bank account, move on to the next one.

Doesn't that work for her ?

Geert



On Friday 18 October 2013 08:23:59 Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Background:
> 
> My wife uses gnu-cash but is really frustrated because she has to
> switch to various accounts to enter expenses.
> 
> She wants one screen from which to do this. The ^T transfer is not
> idea for multiple entry, and type-searching on the account selector
> only matches at the start of the word so a unique portion of the
> account name can't be used as a quick match.
> 
> The closest I could get to what she actually wanted was to create a
> general-ledger account where she has to enter two rows per income or
> expense.
> 
> On one row she records the expense name, the source of the money and
> amount. This creates a corresponding entry in the bank account or
> credit card with the transfer column set to "General-Ledger"
> On the next row she records the expense category and same amount which
> becomes an entry in that expense account with the transfer column
> also set to "General-Ledger". Setting the transfer columns in each
> account to "General ledger" is loss of information on those views.
> 
> Proposal:
> 
> What she would prefer is for the general ledger two have two transfer
> columns and a single amount column (and no balance - which would be
> zero).
> 
> Then she doesn't have to enter the same expense on 2 rows, it just
> becomes a transfer account with two transfers on 1 row.
> 
> And then in the corresponding source/dest accounts of the transfer,
> rather than just list "General-Ledger" in the transfer column it
> should take the entry from the General-Ledger transfer column and
> become
> "General-Ledger(Expenses::Entertainment::Food)" and
> "General-Ledger(Liabilities::Credit-Card)"
> 
> Of course there could be more than one general ledger account, maybe
> they could be named after who did the spending
> 
> Such an account type with it's slightly different view would add
> convenience as well as a new level of meta-data (person or purpose of
> spending) as well as source of money and category of spending
> currently employed.
> 
> 
> I realise that if this is not possible in a simple way, that
> discussion should move over to the -dev list.
> 
> Sam
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