accounting categories

[Jeff Abrahamson]

I'm starting to use gnucash for my rowing club.  We'd like to track
certain projects independently: each race that we go to, a regatta that
we run here at home, the activities of various committees.  Some of
these categories overlap (the students have their own budget but also
participate in races).  I'd like to create budgets for each tracked
activity (as well, of course, as an inclusive budget for the entire
club).  And then I'd like to tag income and expenses for each tracked
activity so that I can watch P&L relative to budget for each.

In French, I would do what I literally translate as analytical
accounting.  (Conceptually, it's just tagging items.)  I've not found
reference to this in the docs, but maybe it's called something else in
English.

Is there support for this in gnucash?  Or have others found useful
work-arounds?

I can easily see a hack (adding tags in the descriptions I enter and
then processing certain reports with python).  But it would be quite
nice to stay within gnucash if I can.

Thanks for any pointers.

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