Viewing childs transactions in parent

[Dave Peticolas]

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On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 09:38, Nicholas Piper wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Due to sending a message to the list with the wrong From address I'm
> sending this again (after having waited a day or so in case the
> moderator is to permit the original to pass; I'm presuming it now
> isn't going to---sorry if my message does end up appearing twice!)
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> I currently manage a bank account with gnucash which has 7 members.
> In order to tell who has what in this bank account, I have given the
> actual bank account 7 children :
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>   The Shared Bank Account  =20
>          |
>          |--- Person 1
>          |--- Person 2
>          |--- Person 3
>          |--- Person 4
>          |--- Person 5
>          |--- Person 6
>          |--- Person 7
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>=20
> This works reasonably well. What would make life a lot simplier
> however would be the ability to open the "Shared Bank Account"
> register and see all the transactions in the children, so I can follow
> the *total* balance over time and compare it with the bank statement.
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> Most of the time the childrens transactions are splits which involve
> all 7, so showing them up in the parent account would (I think) add
> just one line, not 7.

One thing you can do is select the parent account
and choose Account->Open Subaccounts. This will show
you all the transactions, but it won't have a running
balance or balance summary bar.

dave


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