Duplicate names in different parts of the accounts tree?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Sep 21 13:10:26 EDT 2006


Quoting Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com>:

> Is there anything wrong or inadvisable about using the same simple
> account name in different parts of the tree, for example
> "Expenses:House:Insurance" and "Expenses:Car:Insurance"?

No.  This should be allowed.  You just can't have two accounts of the
same name at the place in the tree.  I.e. siblings can't have the same
account name.  However cousins can.

-derek

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