[GNC] Setting up chart of accounts

[Liz]

On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:40:28 -0500
Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> Since you say you are experienced in accounting (but new to gnucash I 
> think what you are asking is "if I have an account A and I want it to
> be a child of account B, how do I do this (in gnucash)?"
> 
> Yes?
> 
> If so, what you want to do is "edit" account A which will give you a 
> chance to specify account B is its parent.
> 
> Try it where it is easy. For example, under the main parent Assets
> you probably want children "current assets" and "fixed assets". Then
> under "current assets" you probably want "checking account",
> "undeposited cash", etc.

What isn't clear is that you can change things - you can move accounts
and give them new parents, and so on.
If you don't get it quite right at first, you can edit it and fix it.

Liz