[GNC] Dimensions in Accounts

[Colin Law]

Is it a big complication to have top level asset accounts Me and Wife
(or whatever) with the relevant bank accounts under them?

Colin

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 05:03, Sachin Danave <sachin.danave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> This may sound like a feature request, but just wanted to know if anything
> like this already exists.
>
> I am preparing accounts for 2 persons (me and my wife) in the same set up.
> That gives me an advantage of seeing the whole financial status at one go.
> However, for Taxation purposes, I would like to have a dimension that
> specifies the owner of an account. E.g. A Bank account that is owned by me
> and a bank account owned by my wife. I could do this using Subaccounts,
> however, that complicates the Chart of Accounts substantially. Traditional
> accounting packages deal with this by allowing to define a dimension to
> different accounts, whereby you can classify the accounts. This
> classification field then can be used in reporting.
>
> My basic question is, can we add such "custom" fields in Accounts ? If so,
> any guidance is welcome !!!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Best Regards
>
> Sachin
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