Inter-account subgroupings

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Blah <backsolve at umich.edu>:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to gnucash, and I want to replicate a certain functionality of MS
> Money.  Namely, it allows for something of an overlay category (I've
> forgotten the term the program uses for it), where though an expense might
> most directly be related to, say, Auto:Fuel, it is also part of a larger
> grouping of transactions associated with some interesting event, say,
> 2006_Vacation_Expenses.
>
> In Money, I had several such interesting categories that I'd use that
> would potentially overlap; one for each household member, one for every
> major vacation, one por periodic events, etc.
>
> Is there any way to achieve something like this in GnuCash?

Not specifically.  You could probably do something with the Description,
Action, Number, or Notes columns to do something like it..  But no, GnuCash
doesn't have this specific functionality.

> Thanks.

-derek

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