using account numbers in gnucash
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Dec 19 10:34:37 EST 2014
Guys,
David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> writes:
> Sorry, but according to chapter 5.2 in the GnuCash manual :
>
> "Note that accounts not only have names; they may have codes, to order
> the accounts. When a report is generated, the sort order is determined
> by the numbering. It’s customary to have the leaf accounts end in
> non-zero digits, while parent nodes have increasing numbers of zeros."
>
> GnuCash _is_ designed to use account numbers. They can be used both for
> data entry and for reporting. Lucky for you in GnuCash they are
> optional, not mandatory as they are in some other accounting programs.
Just for a little history:
GnuCash has *always* had account numbers in the data structures, and it
has always used it for account sorting (as a way to override the
alphabetical default ordering). This has been there as long as I can
remember, certainly back to GnuCash 1.2.
Being able to use those account numbers for input is a newer feature
(added somewhere like 2.4).
As most things in GnuCash, the feature is optional.
Happy Holidays!
> David C
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-derek
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