Parent without placeholder status

[Colin Law]

On 25 September 2010 22:23, Seyfi Duyan <seyfi.duyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

For example I have an account Expenses:computer with a sub-account
Expenses:computer:internet.  I book internet related charges to the
sub account and everything else to the parent.  I could equally have a
placeholder account for computer and an additional sub-account
Expenses:computer:miscellaneous or whatever.  It is a matter of
personal choice how you organise it.

Colin