Parent without placeholder status

[Seyfi Duyan]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Yes, I used to know that there must be a separate child account (like
Expenses:Computer:Others) for transactions that cannot be classified into
one of children, and keep the parent for grouping purposes and
totals/balances only.