Cross-reporting ?

[Thiers Botelho]

Well, this exchange is starting to become interesting.

Since I DO use cheques I wouldn't use the "Num" field as you did. 

However I suppose I could cook up a hierarchy of accounts, and put John 
and Mary as sub-accounts of every other account I intended to break up. 
That would mean just a little more trouble just once - when doing the 
initial account setup.

But how easy would it be, later on, to report on all "John" sub-accounts, 
from many other accounts, altogether ?

(hey guys, don't forget I'm NOT a gnucash user - at least yet)    ;)

Thiers





John Altstadt <altstadt at telus.net>
Enviado Por: gnucash-user-bounces at lists.gnucash.org
11/07/2003 14:34

 
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        Assunto:        Re: Cross-reporting ?


Hi Thiers,

I asked about this a while ago and had a couple of excellent responses. 
Check back in the list archives.

Some of the suggestions included creating separate accounts for John and 
Mary under the appropriate accounts, or put the class information in 
descriptions, or actions. Unfortunately, none of the suggestions given 
at the time really worked for me.

What I finally settled on was to re-use the "Num" field, since I rarely 
write cheques. The Num field is visible in all account views and it is 
easy to select in the Find dialog.

It is quite easy to give all the options a try with some dummy 
information. After trying out several methods over a few days, I 
abandoned Quicken.

John