Funds touching multiple accounts

[Daniel Bergey]

I'm trying to help a small non-profit switch from Quickbooks to Gnucash.
We run classes, and have accounts like:
  Income:Ticket Sales
  Expenses:Printing
  Expenses:Staff
  Expenses:Class Materials

We'd also like to track which class each transaction is associated with,
so we can report net gain / loss for each.  What is a good way to do
this in GnuCash?

I can create a subaccount of each of the accounts above for each class,
and manually set a report for each one.  But that's 4+ new accounts per
class, so I'm hoping there's a more elegant way.

I use ledger[1] for my personal accounts, and it provides a "Virtual
Transaction" feature that meets this particular need.

Thank you,
Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://ledger-cli.org/

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