splitting account (with child account) balances

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jun 3 12:04:52 EDT 2009


ruppie30 at yahoo.com writes:

> hi,
>
> i am a long time gnucash user.  i would like to take a few specific accounts and split the balance of them (simple divide by 2 and round up to the nearest penny).  then i'd like to add and/or subtract other account balances and see the result.  for all of the accounts are parents with child accounts, i need to perform the above math on the parent + all child accounts.
>
> is this best done in a report?  can it be done any other way inside gnucash?

Yes, this would best be done in a report.
There's no other way I can think of to do it inside gnucash.

> thanks,
> chris

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-derek

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