Help with grouping travel expenses

[David T.]

Tom, 
Gnucash, unfortunately does not have classes, which is the Quicken way this would have been done. 
I would probably kludge this functionality by putting my own trip-based text code in one of the fields (say, notes). Then I'd use the recently-distributed transaction report by Doug Doughty (see recent threads on the list for this) to pull a report based on that trip code.
HTH, 
David 

 
 
  On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 14:44, Thomas Robitaille<thomas.robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:   Hi all,

I regularly travel for my work and need to record travel expenses in
GnuCash. However, at the moment I can't figure out what the best way is to
group all travel expenses for a given trip so that I can easily see the
total cost for a particular trip, or generate a report of all expenses (and
reimbursements) for one trip.

What is the best practice for this - should I make one account per trip?
(this could get a bit out of control over time). Making a split transaction
is not a solution here since it seems that I would need to pick a single
date whereas the trips can last 1-2 weeks. One additional factor is that I
need to be able to put different expenses for a same trip in different
currencies, but I think I know how to do that (just having different asset
accounts for each currency).

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Cheers,
Tom
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