New account type

[Maf. King]

On Fri 18 October 13 13:07:11 Sam Liddicott wrote:

> 
> 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...

Tools -> General Ledger

> 
> > > 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.

But in general, transactions put different splits in rows, so for example, a 
cheque written to the department store may well split
Bank: £100
Expenses:Clothes: £50
Expenses:Food: £20
Expenses:Toys: £30

And that is more or less how it will loon in GC, not withstanding that it is 
nicely columnar, unlike plain-text email....

Maybe your wife would prefer double line and/or auto-split view mode for the 
registers? (see the View menu)

 It seems to me that in any given data entry session, most of my transactions 
affect 3 or 4 "source" accounts (eg bank, credit card 1, credit card2), and so 
by entering in those one account at a time, I don't have to switch around 
between lots of expense accounts.  Of course, I can't speak for your account 
structure as everyone's needs are their own!

0.02
Maf.


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> Sam
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