[GNC] help setting accounts to track contributions

[Maf. King]

On Friday, 4 May 2018 09:13:57 BST Gio Bacareza wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My partner and I are moving in together and we'd like to share expenses
> like groceries, rent, etc. So we'd like to track expenses as well as our
> appropriate contributions to make sure that we both are contributing
> equally to house expenses.
> 
> How should I set up the contribution? Under what main account type should
> it be? Any recommendations?

I'd suggest a datafile for you and a separate one for the "joint accounts"

record contributions into the joint accounts as income  (possibly with sub 
accounts like Income:Contribution:Gio) and bill paid in the usual way as 
Expenses:Electricity  and so on.

0.02
Maf.