Subaccounts [WAS Re: Future allocated money vs Budgets]

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 1/27/2018 10:25 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
> Nice! It seems like we are getting somewhere. I am convinced that the process we think of budgeting where we are saving up for something is really a case of segmenting money within a sub-account. And it looks like Gnucash is already happy with this kind of situation - with the include sub-accounts in the recociliation window.
Not exactly. This is a case where the term "budgeting" is being used in 
different ways meaning different things. Budgets my be legal 
(organizations, government entities) or advisory (personal, business) 
though of course businesses might have requirements to set aside funds 
<< might be in the terms of a loan, etc. >>

ONE way of doing this is with liability accounts (typical -- account for 
amounts needed for taxes) but that method can also be used for "reserve 
funds" <<  I deal mainly with non-profits where "restricted funds" are 
common >>

Note that partitioning of a checking account in this way earlier 
described is still just "advisory" as it would NOT prevent you from 
writing a check for more than the balance remaining in the unrestricted 
portion of the account. Just you can't do that without seeing that you 
are doing it.

Michael D Novack