How do I create an Expense sub-account?

[David T.]

Steve,

Be aware that Wm’s suggestion to have multiple top level accounts of the same type can have implications in the budgeting tools. See the discussion at: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2014-April/037400.html <https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2014-April/037400.html>

Cheers,
David

> On Apr 25, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Wm <tcnw81 at tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In article <CAJySyN+MU96nD-deZdS-OcGmnhV6NVKZVL3Lmt8VRX8USRSyHg at mail.gmail.com>
> Steve Kelem <steve.kelem at gmail.com> 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?
> 
> Not quite.  You can have multiple top level Income, Expense, etc 
> account trees so
> 
> Assets (my assets, existing)
> Expenses (existing, mine)
> Income (existing, mine)
> Liabilities (existing, mine)
> Kid Assets
> Kid Income
> etc
> 
> might suit.  However GnuCash generally works better if you keep a 
> seperate book for accounts that should be (legally, say) seperate.
> 
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> Wm
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