Multiple account names

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 13:36:29 GMT Marilyn Dyckhoff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could you help me please.  I am a Treasurer for 2 Not for Profit Dog Clubs
> in Queensland Australia.
>
> Can I run two independent Clubs from the one program or can I download
> something?? that will let me do this, either by renaming account name or
> whatever??
> 
> I am already running a Cash Book style account with GNU for one Club, but
> don't want to lose what I have to try and set up and run another independent
> account by running it with the same info.
> 

Hi Marylin,

Welcome to the list.

You can run many (more-or-less) independent gnucash files for different 
purposes.  File -> New is your best place to start!  

Gnucash handles different accounts files in much the same way as a 
wordprocessor handles different documents or letters.

I say more-or-less in my first paragraph, because some of the options and saved 
reports settings work on a per-user basis, not on a per-file basis. Just be 
aware, that's all, that saved reports might not make sense if run on the 
"wrong" set of books, and financial year is not settable per-file, for example.

GC will re-open the most recently used accounts file by default, if you are on 
a Mac, that is something else to look out for, as clicking-to-open a datafile 
on the Mac has no effect - not the case on Linux (or Windows AFAIK), where 
clicking a datafile will open it, ready for use. (like you'd expect from a word 
processor)

HTH,
Maf.