New account type

[Sam Liddicott]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

Is the general ledger you speak of the general ledger report? I didn't know
about it today.
When I said "general-ledger" not in reference to anything that existed it
just seemed a suitable name.

I'm interested in where you found this general ledger you looked at...


>
> > 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?
>

I was proposing a new type of account with a slightly different view. I
called this type of account general-ledger. Maybe it was a bad name.
As a type of account there can of course me more than once instance of it.

Maf. King made reference to split transactions and I just had a look and
found that I could make a split transaction along those lines but it was a
very cumbersome process to get right and so perhaps Maf. king is right and
I am just looking for an alternate account view when splits are expanded to
multiple columns.

Sam