New account type

[Sam Liddicott]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 18 October 2013 13:47, John G Sullivan <sullij_27615 at att.net> wrote:
> > The process which your wife is using seems backwards. Why not start
> > from where the money originates. If she paid out of pocket, just use
> > cash as the base account, and enter the expense as the account field. If
> > paid from checking, start there.
>
> That is why I asked the OP to explain exactly what she is doing, I
> suspect she does not understand how transactions should be entered.
>
>
This is one view, but the user will select software based on how well it's
idea of how things should be done coincides with their own.
If software cannot do it "their way" it is discarded, and after all - most
humans are not accountants.

I didn't really want to have to find an alternative to gnu cash, and in my
view whatever makes it work for what a person needs, IS what they need.

And as I'm not doing the accounts, whatever helps her do it solves my
problem :-)

So I'm grateful to the authors and mailing contributors.

Prior to this we had a large spread sheet with a pair of columns for each
account or expense (a running balance and an adjustment) so data entry was
very quick and simple. Try telling someone who is used to that how it
"should" be done :-)

Sam