New Entities

[Adrien Monteleone]

Matt,

There might be a use case for it, but as I mentioned, it’s just too darned easy already to switch between books. With the example of the club book I manage, I have to sometimes record my own expenses in my personal books, and then in the club books as a contribution in-kind. The workflow is simple enough to click File > filename.gnucash at the bottom of the list, enter the transaction again from the club’s perspective and then switch back. If I really had a more difficult task, I’d attempt an export/import scenario. (waiting till 3.0 anyway on that count since the present importer doesn’t like Gnucash’s own exports much)

It’s probably best to leave this as-is.

The use case with a greater need (which is still a long way off) is multiple users editing the same file in a network environment.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 6, 2018, at 7:53 PM, Matt Graham <matt_graham2001 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The only other thing to add - this all presumes that you need separation. Probably do for your businesses (tax and legal reasons - I have no idea), but don't forget that GNUCash reports are very flexible - you choose the accounts you want included.
> 
> I don't use the business features though - I'm not sure whether they would be as flexible.
> 
> You could have two different root accounts for each business (each with their own assets, expenses, liabilities, and income sub accounts) and go from there.
> 
> I'm sure I just gave a few accountants on this list a heart attack...
> 
> Ultimately, as others have said, opening different files for each business is probably a better way to go.
> 
> David/Adrian/John - is opening multiple windows a feature we should be putting into bugzilla for eventual incorporation? I'm getting the impression that V3.0 onwards will be much easier to fix up stuff like this.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Matt
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Roger Hatton <roghat3 at gmail.com>
> Date: 7/2/18 08:58 (GMT+10:00)
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: New Entities
> 
> Does GNU Cash support more than one entity?
> In other words separate ledgers for separate business names?
> Using the one single downloaded GNU Cash system?
> Process advice appreciated.
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