tracking per-project profit/loss

[Chris Peachment]

You can add a new top level account to the chart (like Assets,
Liabilities, Equity, Income, Expenses) for each project. It works
to identify it as an Income account. Then add subsidiary Income
and Expense accounts under it. The standard profit and loss report
will gather all the income accounts under the Income header,
across the main accounts AND the projects. It will gather the
Expense accounts in the same manner.

You can create a separate report for just the project details.

I am doing this for projects in a not-for-profit operation.

On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 12:27 +0000, Dan Hulme wrote:
> I've just taken over the accounts for a band, and set up an account
> hierarchy in Gnucash for them. I have expense accounts for different
> types of expense, and income accounts for takings and fees for concerts
> we perform at.
> One thing I'd like to track is the overall profit and loss for each
> concert we perform. That is, I'd like to have some kind of "project"
> that I can associate each related expense and income transaction with,
> and then a way to see a list of project with the overall position for
> each (or at least to filter transactions by project).
> It sounds very much like the "jobs" feature the invoicing system has,
> but most of the transactions don't have (or need) invoices: cash ticket
> sales, for instance. It would be a little silly to create a lot of
> 'fake' invoices and vendors just to be able to use jobs.
> Is there some other way I can achieve this? I couldn't find anything in
> the concepts manual.
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