[GNC] help to set up equity sub-accounts opening balances

[Marilyn Graves Kimple]

 Thanks-- but my problem is that I do not treat items from these equity accounts as expenses at all. In my former program it was called a "fund" account and I could move funds in and out of the equity accounts without affecting my monthly expenses. It was like an assets account but of course it just represented a designated portion of my assets. Since I cannot assign an opening balance to part of my equity account I am not sure this is something I can now do. 
For example, I write a check for a donation, credit my checking account and directly debit my tithe (equity) account. It does not show up as a monthly expense, although I transfer funds each month to the tithe (equity) fund by debiting what I am (possibly incorrectly) calling my accruals (expense) account. I divide up any profit/loss at the end of the month directly to my equity sub-accounts as credits, so my income always zeros out my expenses at the end of the month.
I would sure like to figure out a way to do that in GnuCash. If I just treated my tithe, etc. accounts as expenses I do not see how I could keep a running balance.  Maybe I will just have to do something different.
Best regards, mgk
 
Message: 3
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 10:35:32 -0500
From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] help to set up equity sub-accounts opening balances
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While you can make any account structure you want, there's no need to do 
so just for reporting purposes. Reports can show expenses (or anything 
else) monthly, yearly, for just a few days, or one day only if you like.

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/4/20 10:07 AM, Marilyn Graves Kimple via gnucash-user wrote:
> I have used double-entry bookkeeping although I am not trained. In the past I have used what I called 'fund' accounts as sub-accounts for my equity account: home maintenance, tithe, and emergency savings, for example. I divide my 'profits' each month and accrue them through an expense account to accounts which are part of my total equity.
> The object is to keep a running total for expenses which are typically annual rather than a month-by-month total. Can I do this with GnuCash? I think I really need to do this.
> Setting up my accounts initially I tried setting up sub-accounts under the parent Equity, and then under the Equity sub-account Opening Balances, and it only allows me to transfer to Open Balances in each case. The funds in my assets/liabilities account are not transferable 1 to 1 to one of these other accounts.
> I may have to change the way I do things, but I would really appreciate help with this.? mgk