symlink account?

[Andrew Gelvin Burley Grimes]

Is there a way to create a Gnucash expense account that actually acts 
like something of a symbolic link in Unix?  Here's what I mean --




I have a placeholder expense account, "Insurance," containing 
subaccounts "Auto" & "Homeowners"

I also have a placeholder expense account "Taxes," containing 
subaccount "Property Tax" (among others)

I would like to create an expense account "Escrow," with subaccounts 
"Homeowners Insurance" and "Property tax," so I can keep track of what 
I have paid into escrow on my mortgage.  However, these accounts 
already exist under their other respective parent accounts.  Is there a 
way to set up an account such that it looks over into another account 
to get its balance?  Or, is it possible for an account to have two 
separate parent accounts?

Am I conceptualizing this whole thing incorrectly?



thanks for your thoughts,

Drew




Drew Grimes
North Carolina State University
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aggrimes