Multi-company accounting

[Derek Atkins]

Nope.  Multiple data files are unique and idempotent.

-derek

Quoting Conor McGarry <conormcgarry at gmail.com>:

> 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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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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