Multi-company accounting

[Yawar Amin]

Conor,

Could you `fake' these super-accounts by adding a numbered prefix to each
separate company's accounts? In other words, you can't have super-accounts
which contain all five basic account types, but you can have super-accounts
just one level below that. E.g. consider the following hierarchy:

- Comp01_Assets
  Common Stock
  Bonds
  Options
- Comp01_Equity
  Retained Earnings
  Owner's Equity
- Comp01_Expenses
  Brokerage Fees
  Bank Fees
+ Comp01_Income
+ Comp01_Liabilities
+ Comp02_Assets
+ Comp02_Equity
+ Comp02_Expenses
+ Comp02_Income
+ Comp02_Liabilities
.
.
.
+ Comp75_Assets
+ Comp75_Equity
+ Comp75_Expenses
+ Comp75_Income
+ Comp75_Liabilities

Admittedly, this is a lot of drudgery. If you're willing to pay, though, I'm
sure you could hire a high school kid with a basic knowledge of computers,
and maybe some accounting, to set up a skeleton Gnucash file with all the
above accounts. Of course, in the long run it's smarter to hire someone to
write a utility that does this kind of setup automatically! And maybe
release it as open source...? :-)

Cheers

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Conor McGarry <conormcgarry at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> This new "organizational" account type would be perfect.  Could it be
> developed?
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Forest Bond <forest at alittletooquiet.net
>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:29:52PM +0000, Conor McGarry wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to develop something that could handle
multi-company
> > > transactions if each company had its own GnuCash file?
> >
> > Wouldn't it make more sense to add a new account type that contain any
> > other
> > account type but cannot contain transactions directly?  An
"Organizational"
> > account?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Forest
> > --
> > Forest Bond
> > http://www.alittletooquiet.net
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