symlink account?

Dave Reed drlinux at columbus.rr.com
Mon Dec 13 13:51:03 EST 2004


On Monday 13 December 2004 12:50, Andrew Gelvin Burley Grimes wrote:
> 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


IANAA, but I think what you want to do is create an Asset account called 
Escrow, and make transfers from checking to this escrow account when 
you pay your mortgage and then as bills are paid, you would transfer 
from Escrow to the appropriate expense.

HTH,
Dave





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