New account type

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Fri Oct 18 04:13:29 EDT 2013


On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:23:59 +0100
Sam Liddicott <sam at liddicott.com> wrote:

> Background:
> 
> My wife uses gnu-cash but is really frustrated because she has to
> switch to various accounts to enter expenses.
> 
> She wants one screen from which to do this.

I can understand that if you forget to change from the credit card
account to the main bank account and put things in the wrong place it
can be quite frustrating. I have had "missing transactions" at
reconcile turn up in another account.



> What she would prefer is for the general
> ledger two have two transfer columns and a single amount column (and
> no balance - which would be zero).

> Then she doesn't have to enter the same expense on 2 rows, it just
> becomes a transfer account with two transfers on 1 row.

I cannot see how this works with the GUI. 
I've opened up the general ledger to have to look, and you would
destroy the memo field, and have 10 columns across the row.

> Of course there could be more than one general ledger account, maybe
> they could be named after who did the spending

I can't sort this out conceptually. First you propose an all purpose
one line ledger to avoid using account tabs, and then you propose
multiple general ledger accounts?

Perhaps you could explain some more?

Liz


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