getting a summary of subaccount

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon May 5 14:22:02 EDT 2014


Alexandre Russel <alexandre at russel.fr> writes:

> Hi,
>
>   I'm use to provision money for a lot of thing, for example I'll set aside
> x$/month for summer holidays, y$/month for yearly taxes and z$/month for
> christmas present.  At the bank, I have a single account I'm using for all
> the provisioning, but I created a sub account for each in gnucash.  So I
> have something looking like:
> - Account A => this is my bank account
> - sub account A1 => christmas provisioning
> - sub account A2 => tax provisioning
> - sub account A3 => holiday provisioning
>
> The problem I have with this setting is that I don't see what should be in
> the bank. Is there a way to have all transaction of the subaccounts appear
> in the main account ? so I could see looking at Account A all A1, A2 and A3
> transactions ?

>From the Chart of Accounts you can select A, right click, and select
Open Subaccounts.  This will open up A and all of its subaccounts and
show all transactions.  Note, however, that it wont show a running
balance of "A" with the subaccounts being virtual.

> Alex

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-derek

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