How do I create an Expense sub-account?

[Maf. King]

On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 23:48:00 BST Steve Kelem wrote:
>    Hi. I'm trying to model my kid's finances within my gnucash file.
>    My thinking was that I could model it all in one file, and my kid
>    hasn't shown any interest in his own finance, other to spend it as soon
>    as he gets it. I also figured it would be easier to have his account as
>    part of my gnucash file so that accounting for transfers between the
>    accounts would be easier in one file than in two separate gnucash
>    files.
>    I'd like to set up the gnucash accounts hierarchy as:
>    Kid1 (type Asset)
>    + Kid1 Assets (type Asset)
>    + Kid1 Expenses (can't set to type Expense!)
>    + Kid1 Income    (can't set to type Income!)
>    + Kid1 Liabilities (type Liability)
>    Assets (my assets, existing)
>    Expenses (existing, mine)
>    Income (existing, mine)
>    Liabilities (existing, mine)
>    The bottom 4 already exist and have lots of sub-accounts.
>    I was able to create the Assets and Liabilities sub-accounts, but not
>    the Expenses or Income. When I tried to create the Kid1 Expenses and
>    Income accounts, the Edit Account's Account Type choices are only Bank,
>    Cash, Asset, Credit Card, Liability, Stock, Mutual Fund, A/Receivable,
>    and A/Payable.
>    Is there a way to create this new sub-hierarchy with those account
>    types?
>    Thanks,
>    Steve

Hi,

Just a vague feeling on this, sorry if I'm wrong & it doesn't help - if the 
Kid1 account is type Equity, GC might let it be parent to all the other types?

0.02
Maf.