How to set up hierarchy for accounts? What is better?

[FireFly]

Why do you need to put the "Bank Name" at the start of the tree? Is it that important what accounts are in what banks (or rather totaling)?

Personally if you care about IRA's in a particular bank I'd keep original setup with a minor change

Investments:Retirement:IRA:[Bank Name]:Account X

- James Duerr

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--- On Thu, 3/17/11, alfggmb <alfggmb at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: alfggmb <alfggmb at verizon.net>
> Subject: How to set up hierarchy for accounts? What is better?
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8:00 PM
> Is it better to set up parent-child
> accounts for IRA investments as for e.g.
> [Bank Name]:Investments:IRA:Account1,2 etc or leave it as
> in the original
> setup.. Investments:Retirement:IRA..
> 
> The problem is all the IRAs from everywhere(all banks and
> others) would
> appear under the same parent, namely Retirement.  It
> will not give a total
> for [Bank Name]:
> 
> Basically my question is, is there an easy way to find the
> totals for both
> (all accounts in [Bank Name] which includes the IRA in
> Investments:etc) and
> (all IRAs) ? 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Al
> 
> 
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