Multi-company accounting

[Derek Atkins]

Forest Bond <forest at alittletooquiet.net> writes:

> 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?

This idea has come up before and it's been debated..  But nobody
has offered to do the work to add it and make sure all the reports
work correctly.

> Thanks,
> Forest

-derek

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