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[Mike or Penny Novack]

Dr. Muhammad Masroor Ali wrote:

>Dear Michael,
>Thanks for your answer.
>
>Perhaps you are carrying it a bit too far. 
>
>While I plan to use this for the partnership scenario, actually I will have
>to manage three separate entities, each having a number of partners. The
>three entities have some kind of financial dependency among them and the
>intersection of partners among the three entities is non-null.  
>  
>
I think I know where you are coming from --- bookkeeper effort. It is 
NOT just that these three entities frequently have financial 
transactions between them and perhaps some overlap of partners BUT just 
so happens same bookkeeper. So you'd like to reduce the work on the 
bookkeeper by having everything in one set of books.

Sorry, but that's a bad solution. It doesn't matter that there is a lot 
of interaction, all three entities should be private data. And even if 
at the present time they share a bookkeeper that would not necessarily 
be true in the future. Yes, separate books does mean that transactions 
between two entities have to be entered in each entities books just the 
same as if there was just a normal business relationship and different 
bookkeepers were doing the entering.

Michael