Multi-company accounting

[Conor McGarry]

Would it be possible to develop something that could handle multi-company
transactions if each company had its own GnuCash file?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:
>
> > Create 75 'super accounts', one for each company.  Under these 'super
> > accounts', you create a regular account tree, one for each company.
> >
> > The only snafus I can think of is that the invoice numbering along with
> > the customer database (such as it is) would be merged together for all
> > 75 companies.  Question: how independent are these companies?  Are they
> > completely separate businesses or are they tied together on some level?
>
> Unfortunately this wont work.  GnuCash does not have an account
> that can hold every other account type.
>
> Sorry, Conor, but there's no way to do what you want.
>
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> -derek
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