[GNC] Dimensions in Accounts

[Sachin Danave]

Sorry I was not clear on my requirement.

I want a Classification field which is attached to an account. This could
be an "owner", so while we have a single Parent Bank account, and 2
accounts of me and my wife below it, I need something to tag these
accounts. That way, when I run a report, I will be able to segregate these
accounts.

Other option is to have a separate hierarchy, but that just increases the
number of accounts.

In general, can we add any custom fields at all to the tables / forms ?

I work for an ERP Software company and this is a fairly standard feature
across such packages.

Thank you all for your response. It has been really heartening to see all
of you responding.

By the way, I am very happy with Gnucash features - it is a very feature
rich system. The Get Quotes works intermittently, but that is something I
can put up with.

Thanks and Regards

Sachin

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 3:04 PM Jeff Abrahamson <jeff at p27.eu> wrote:

> If I understand the original question, this is requesting analytical
> accounting features.  This has been mentioned before on this list.  I
> don't believe gnucash currently provides this, thought I'd be very happy
> to be proven wrong, as it's  a feature I also would like.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On 29/04/2019 09:36, Colin Law wrote:
> > 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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