Cross-reporting ?
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jul 11 13:11:06 CDT 2003
unfortunately not really.. You could use the description or action
fields in the transaction for this.. But no, gnucash does not have
the concept of a "class". Note that category directly maps to
"account". but there is no direct mapping for "class".
-derek
"Thiers Botelho" <thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been thinking of using GnuCash to (re)start controlling my home
> expenses. I'm a former user of Quicken 2000, which I have not used it in
> the last 2 yrs or so. For this reason I'm not quite sure on the
> terminology, but there is a particular item which is important for me ; I
> could do it in Quicken, and I'd be glad if someone could tell me if
> GnuCash will do something similar - preferably before I start studying
> the documentation. It goes like :
>
> In Quicken, I could record transactions within particular categories (?)
> like "Dining Expenses" and "Medicine", for instance ; PLUS when entering
> each transaction I could also add another qualifier (class ?) such as
> "John" and "Mary".
>
> Therefore, when producing reports, I could have all the cross-reporting
> options, like "Dining Expenses for Everybody", "All Expenses for Mary", or
> "Medicine for John".
>
> Does GnuCash provide a practical means to achieve this flexibility ? If
> so, what structures and options I should look for in the docs ?
>
> Thanx all in advance.
>
> Thiers
>
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