How do I create an Expense sub-account?

[Larry Evans]

On 04/20/2016 07:35 AM, Maf. King wrote:
> 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.
>
Maf, I tried creating a Equity account called Parent1.  Then I tried to
create a subaccount to that one, but GC only let the subaccount be
another Equity account.  IOW it wouldn't allow Asset or Liability or
Income or Expense as the type of the subaccount of Parent1.

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