Parent without placeholder status

[Seyfi Duyan]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> If it is just a placeholder then it cannot have transactions of it's
> own (transactions must be on the children accts).  If it is not just a
> placeholder then it can have transactions as well as the children
> having transactions.  I have a number of non-placeholder Expense
> accounts that have sub accounts.  So an expense can be assigned to the
> parent or one of the children as appropriate.
>
>
What's the point of using an account as parent if I need to post individual
transactions to it?