Dividing accounts in multiple branches

[Dieter]

Hello,

I'm new to gnucash, I've read some parts of user guides regarding the
accounts structure but I'm still wondering how to implement the following:

Lets say I've got a farm with different branches: 1) milking cows; 2) pigs;
3)crop1: potatoes; 4)crop2: corn. For each of these branches I'd like to set
up 3 basic accounts (income, variable expense, fixed expense) which may have
subaccounts which vary according to the branch.

There are 4 requirements for this setup:
1) I must be able to get info/summary for each branch separately.
2) It must be possible to relate branches, for example: a part of the
variable cost of crop2:corn is entered as a subaccount of the variable cost
of the milking cows.
3) It must be possible to have certain subaccounts to be entered in multiple
branches, for example: the expense 'BARN' is partially entered in the fixed
cost of crop1:potatoes and partially entered in the fixed cost of milking
cows.
4) It must be possible to create an overview/summary of the entire farm to
get some sort of an end result.

How does one implement such a thing with GNUcash, I have no other experience
with bookkeeping software...
Are there, except for the user guides, other examples available similar to
this problem?

Idea 1:
create multiple files/'companies' for each branch (cow, pig, potatoe, corn)
which each have the basic accounts (income, variable expense, fixed
expense).

Idea 2: 
create 1 file/company which contains 4 'branch' accounts (cow, pig, potatoe,
corn) which each contain the basic subaccounts (income, variable expense,
fixed expense).

Idea 3:
create 1 file/company which contains the basic accounts (income, variable
expense, fixed expense), which each contain the 4 'branch' subaccounts (cow,
pig, potatoe, corn).

I've done a very quick search through the user forum, but haven't found
similar question.
Any suggestions, guidelines of references?

kind regards,
Dieter



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