categorized monthly expense reports?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 3/1/2017 3:29 PM, Elmar wrote:
> Good afternoon to the list
>
> I am trying to set up 3 expense reports:  fixed expenses, variable 
> expenses and discretionary expenses.  Into each of these I want to 
> place some of the categories/accounts under the expenses tab.  But I 
> see no way to create these "super-categories" other than creating them 
> in the basic list of accounts, i.e. not just one account labeled 
> "expenses" (placeholder account, with subaccounts under it), but 3 
> separate placeholder accounts.  Have I parsed this correctly?
>
> - Elmar 
This is a more general question than just for expenses.

Yes, accounts can be nested. Most reports I have looked at allow setting 
for a nesting depth of five. If you do use nesting, pay attention to 
that, since the default is three.

Michael D Novack

PS: You do not have to start over to make the change you want. Simply 
add the new (placeholder) accounts as children under "expenses" and then 
use "edit account" to change the parent account of each expense account 
you want to move to be under one of these.