Dimensions?

[Tom K. Weckstrom]

Yes, but sometimes one bumps into situations where the two aspects of
looking the expenses (or why not income as well) are so orthogonal, that one
just cannot handle this with a well planned account structure.

I found a term "dimension" from the user reference manual of HAT, see
http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-45834/MUS412.pdf
Maybe, with dimensions one can handle the problem of viewing the information
from different angles...

Regards,
                Tom

Phillip Shelton wrote:

> I suppose that means that I should think quite carefully about
> which accounts are children of what.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Graham Merkel [mailto:rgmerk@mira.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 3:53 PM
> > To: shelton@usq.edu.au
> > Cc: 'Jens Müller'; 'Gnucash Devel'
> > Subject: RE: Dimensions?
> >
> >
> > Phillip Shelton writes:
> >  > No it is not a split. The shoes cost $50 so I want to have
> > the clothes
> >  > account debited with $50 and the shoes account debited
> > with $50 and the bank
> >  > account credited with $50.
> >
> > For the purposes of getting double-entry accounting together, that's
> > not how things work.
> >
> > However, for the purposes of extracting useful information out of
> > your accounting system, reports should (and will) be able to do things
> > like "count all the transactions that were clothing-related".  That
> > will happen.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert Merkel                            rgmerk@mira.net
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
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