New account type

[Sam Liddicott]

Thanks Maf. and Liz - Tools->General Ledger is what I thin she needs.

Turning off double-line makes it intelligable.

Good old GC already has what she wanted

Thanks to all who gave advice!

Sam


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> >
> > Sam
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