Best way to set up accounts

[Red Snapper]

--- Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> wrote:
> Red Snapper writes:
>  > First, thanks much for your labors, I love
> product!
>  > Please forgive too my poor English.
> 
> That's ok.  I can't speak for the other developers,
> but I doubt 
> we speak your native language very well either :)
> 
> 
>  > My question is thusly as follows.  Pretend, if
> you
>  > will, that you are me.  Don't have long face,
> this
>  > will take scarce moments ;)!  You have vanilla
>  > checking account which you use for grouping
>  > transactions from three real estate properties
> for
>  > renting.  Soon you must report to uncle Sam about
> each
>  > property separately.  There are some split
>  > transactions (e.g. pay landscaper with one check
> to
>  > service two landscapes!).
>  > 
>  > To accomplish you might:
>  > a) create accounts e.g. "Expenses:Real
> Estate:Property
>  > A:Landscaping" and too "Expenses:Real
> Estate:Property
>  > B:Landscaping", but this weighs heavy on heart.  
> 
> OK, this is what I would do.  If I'm understanding
> you correctly, 
> this is a problem.  Why is this a problem?

Oh!!!!!

I use Categories in other product, but your Expense
Accounts are different.  This is good because grants
more abstracting.

Thanks for help!
-Claude

> 
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> Robert Merkel	                          
> rgmerk@mira.net
> 
> "We are excited and optimistic about its usage going
> 
> forward and, yes, we can teach penguins the military
> 
> close-order drill", Mark Norton, US Department of
> Defense. 
>
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