moving top-level accounts to a sub-level account with the same name

[Jon Lapham]

Tom Perkins wrote:
> Hello-
> 
> I want to clean up my account tree by moving some top-level accounts to a
> sub account with an existing name.  For example, I have a top-level
> account called "Household" and I want to move it under my top-level
> "Expenses" account.  But the "Expenses" account already has a "Household"
> account.
> 
> Is there an easy way to move the account?  I tried to move the
> "Household" account in the account editor to "Household" under
> "Expenses", but I ended up with two identically named accounts called
> "Household" under "Expenses".
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.

If I understand you correctly, you want to move all the transactions 
from top-level "Household" account into the already existing 
Expenses::Household account.  Effectively combining them.

This should help:
http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/appendixb_using.html#appendixb_using_moveAtoB

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