categorizing

[Maf. King]

On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 09:10, Beth Leonard wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:50:01PM -0600, Matt Funk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i was wondering whether gnucash has the capability to cross reference
> > rather than just a hierarchical structure.
> > What i mean is this. Say i have 2 expense accounts. One is called Car and
> > the other House.
> > Say now that under both i have an account called Insurance.
> >
> > Is there any way in gnucash to give me all the account called insurance?
>
> To the best of my knowledge there is no current way to do this, you
> have to re-parent the accounts as needed.
>

Hi,

Or use the transaction report.  With Beth's suggested account tree ( copied 
below), you can set a transaction report to give you total expenditure in 
say, expenses:car:* or expenses:*:insurance.  Sure, you have to manually go 
through and set the report up to only show those expense accounts, but it 
will achieve what you want, IMHO. (and you can break the expense down by 
month, or whatever) 

If you don't close the report, then it will re-generate every time you re-open 
that data file. 



> So, do this: (recommended)
>   Expenses:Car:Car Insurance
>   Expenses:Car:Gas
>   Expenses:House:Homeowners Insurance
>   Expenses:House:Repairs
>   Expenses:Medical:Medical Insurance
>

HTH,
Maf.