Is there a way to enter my transactions to take the place of "class"

Dmitriy dmangul at freenet.de
Fri Jun 5 10:10:45 EDT 2009


> Hi,
> 
> Floyd Cornell <fdcllc at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I have rental properties and with MS Money I enter transactions by category
>> (say utilities) and then by class (say B street).
>> I would love to use Gnucash and Linux, but I have not figured out how to be
>> able to make reports showing income and expenses for each property, and
>> reports showing income and expenses for each category. I would think this
>> must be a pretty common need, and I'm just not understanding it.
> 
> GnuCash has no concept of "Classes"  (we would call them Tags).
> There's been some discussion about it, but right now we don't have
> anything like that.   The best you could do right now is use the
> Notes field to tag a transaction and then write some custom report
> code to limit searches to notes with certain keywords.

Hi, Derek, where can I find a discussion about Tags? This feature is 
very interesting for me.


> 
>> Also, I export my register to a csv file which is converted to Excel so my
>> accountant can use it to do my taxes.
>> Can Gnucash export in a format that can be opened by calc or excel?
> 
> Sure, see the FAQ.
> 
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_can_I_export_data.3F
> 
>> Thanks
>> Floyd
> 
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> 
> -derek
> 



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