Expense Categories

[Stephen J. Gowdy]

Hi Tony,
 	Expense categories are just other accounts in gnucash. If you 
create the default account tree you should have a large set of them. You 
need to use a Split transaction to use more than one expense type.

 						regards,

 						Stephen.

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Tony Nelson wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have just started to play with and evaluate GnuCASH.  So I am a real
> newbee, and I do not consider myself an accomplished bookkeeper either.
> But I have used QuickBooks for the last 15 years or so to manage a small
> business.
>
> My question: In QuickBooks, when you write a check, the expenses get
> broken down into user-defined expense categories (e.g., travel, business
> meals, entertainment).  I do not see a place to create a list of expense
> categories.  Am I missing it, or does it not exist with this package?
>
> Thanks!
> --Tony
>
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