Virtual accounts or line items

[David Carlson]

What I do is keep two register views open on the 'parent' account, one
'with sub-accounts' which shows the totals as seen by the bank and one
normal register view which shows the amount not dedicated to the 'virtual'
sub-account(s).

As suggested in the thread that you cited, I do not tell the bank anything
about the 'virtual' sub-account(s) transactions, so they will never appear
in an imported transaction list and thus they are never 'cleared' via the
import.  While it is not required to have a register view open during an
import, I always do, because I have a lot of cases where the import process
makes matching mistakes or incorrect transfer account assignments if I do
not monitor it.

In any case, my reconciliation is intended to verify transactions with the
bank, and it still works correctly in the 'with sub-accounts' register
view.  The 'Include Sub-Accounts option is not required.  I then look in
the 'virtual' sub-account(s) register(s) and I can reconcile them
separately.  For those accounts the reconciliation only tells me that I am
satisfied with those transactions.

As for budgeting, I do not use that feature, so I cannot comment.

David C

On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:

> I've got a question about using virtual accounts along with QFX imports.
>
> I found this thread about using virtual accounts to do budgeting:
> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Virtual-accounts-td1421283.html
>
> I rather like how it works from the perspective that I know how much money
> is available in my checking account for things that I haven't budgeted.
> This also works well when reconciling against my statement as I can check
> the box to include sub-accounts and everything balances.
>
> However when I import a QFX file, the importer will only look at the top
> level account for transactions. This means that I need to manually clear
> the transactions in the sub-accounts.
>
> My wife uses Quickbooks at work and says there is a view that works for her
> for this. She can create these virtual sub-accounts and see their
> individual transactions, however when she looks at the top-level account
> she sees all transactions for the top account and the sub-accounts.
>
> Is there a way to do this in GnuCash?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jon
>
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