Funds touching multiple accounts

[Alun Champion]

There's been a lot of discussion about classes, tagging, and
analytical accounting. Take a look at this outstanding enhancement
request: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772 which has
some valuable dialogue about approaches in the absence of the feature
being supported natively.


On 17 January 2014 12:41, Daniel Bergey <bergey at thehacktory.org> wrote:
> 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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