Accounting question - provision for expense

[Doug Laidlaw]

Thanks Derek.  That should do it nicely.

Doug.

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:14:30 pm Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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