Changing the Order of Accounts

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 2/27/2015 7:26 AM, YeOldHinnerk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Account numbers are the proper solution. There are a few shortfalls though,
> some reports don't sort by account number but by name. But in the CoA the
> account numbers work like a charm.

For that situation you have no choice but to alter the names of the 
accounts so that you can control the collating sequence that way. It 
isn't really THAT confusing to have prefixes to the human readable 
account names and a problem with the reports coming out only if you 
insist gnucash do final editing (instead of editing the exported 
reports).  But "pretty printing" is best done with an external editor in 
any case.

For example:  For accounts Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner you use names 
ac-Breakfast, af-Lunch, ak-Dinner, in which case the meal accounts will 
be sorted in normal meal time order BOTH in the chart of accounts and in 
all reports.

Michael D Novack