account organization

[Derek Atkins]

Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> writes:

> It occurred to me that a really twisted thing to do would be to create a
> parent account like Petty Loans:Jack which has a Liability subaccount
> called Payable and an Asset account called Receivable. Maybe the parent
> account would show you where you stand. Gnucash probably doesn't allow
> that though.

It does allow it, but many of the reports don't understand how to cope.
I consider this latter issue a bug, but haven't had time to look into
it.

-derek

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