Accounting question - provision for expense

[Derek Atkins]

Create a subaccount of your checking account and store your 'savings'
there.  When you reconcile, check off the "include subaccounts'
button.

-derek

Quoting Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au>:

> I don't like asking accounting questions on a list that should be devoted to
> the program, but everybody does it, so here goes :)
>
> We want to save for our daughter's wedding in 6 months.  A separate bank
> account would be ideal, but we don't have one.   If I transfer cash from my
> bank account to a provision, the bank account won't reconcile.   I think
> (without looking) that Quicken has a feature where I can hide part of the
> amount at credit, but I know of no similar feature in Gnucash.  I do really
> want to hide the amount set aside, because seeing the lower balance is better
> psychologically.
>
> Is there any other way I can achieve this?
>
> Doug.
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