Adding total in the Accounts dashboard

[Chris Henderson]

Yes, looks like I need to reorganize my account a little bit. Thanks.


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

> Chris Henderson wrote:
>
>  Is there any way to select and add the total of, say 2 or 3 accounts in
>> the
>> dashboard? E.g. I have $500 in a checking account and $1,000 in a savings
>> account and if I select these two accounts, GnuCash would tell me the
>> total
>> is $1500.
>>
>>
>>
> I am not sure I understand what you mean by "dashboard". But if that you
> mean the view of accounts, this is a matter of how you set up your chart of
> accounts.
>
> For example, "assets" are of two general types, "fixed assets" (like real
> property) and "current assets" which are liquid cash assets like your
> checking and savings accounts.
>
> So ...... if you create a place holder account called "current assets"
> under assets and then make "checking" and "savings" both children of this
> parent, the total of checking and savings will show as the balance of this
> "current assets" account.
>
> That what you want?
>
> Michael
>