Family usage of gnucash

[Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior]

Hello all,
Let me participate in this topic.

As far as I understood, Valery was not referring to multiple access to
GnuCash files, but to how should be the set of accounts in GnuCash if a
family (let say, husband and wife) wants to track their accounts considering
that they have separated accounts but share some of them.

Maybe it happens because my lack of knowledge (I consider myself a beginner
in GnuCash and also in accounting/bookkeeping), but I have some difficult to
model the following situation:

1) I have my account "Husband:Bank"
2) My wife also: "Wife:Bank"
3) We share some bills and we also have some individual bills/expenses
4) For instance, this month I have paid $100 for the gas bill (shared) with
money from my account "Husband:Bank". In GnuCash, it would look like this:

*Description   Transfer            TotDebit TotCredit*
Gas bill
              Family:Expenses       100.00
              Husband:Bank                    100.00

What should I do to track that now my wife own me $50.00?

Does someone use to do something similar?

Regards,
Luiz

2009/12/9 <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>

> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:59:25PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Валерий Булаш <valery.bulash at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > gnucash is not convenient for family usage.
> > > Family from my point of view is a little community where ...:
> > >
> > >    1. ... some people got separate salaries and other incomes.
> > >    2. ... all / most people can have common wallet - i.e. cash for
> food.
> > >    3. ... some people can have own wallets - kid for ice cream, wife
> for
> > >    make-up, husband for weapons and so on. I guess such wallets are
> transparent
> > >    for others, but it is not evident and not obvious.
> > >    4. ... every person can perform exact / similar financial operation.
> > >
> > > I see that implementation of multi-user access to gnucash data is not a
> > > family issue in general.
> > > How it is implemented in gnucash 2.2.9 (correct me where I'm wrong):
> >
> > GnuCash is not multi-user.  You cannot have multiple people entering
> > data in simultaneously.
> >
> > > No number... Term "person" (not just "user of program"!) doesn't exist
> at
> > > all. I see it is root cause of all problems.
> > >
> > >    1. Implemented with tricks. I can write in account name "Mary's
> income"
> > >    or "Joe's salary", but it is not applicable for sorting / filtering
> /
> > >    reporting.
> > >    2. Fully implemented where ALL persons want to share money. Not
> > >    implemented where SOME persons want to share money.
> > >    3. Not implemented at all. Full multi-user access with exact rights
> to
> > >    accounts and some rules of account visibility for others could help
> here.
> > >    Simpler way - every operation entered on personal account will
> record
> > >    account's owner name / code.
> > >    4. Not implemented at all. Transation must include person's name /
> code
> > >    or "all" as mark of transation owner / performer.
> >
> > You're right, none of this is implemented.  Could you do this with
> Quicken?
>
> It does seem that 1. and 2. work as is, but 3. and 4. not.
>
> - hendrik
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