[GNC] How to track Family expenses ?

[David Cousens]

Long,

2. If you display the Balance sheet then Edit Options in the options dialog
you can control what is displayed in the Balance sheet. If you have the
subaccounts for your wife and yourself and family at the second level in the
account heirarchy, you can choose to display that level and you will get
separate totals for each person for assets, liabilities, equity, income and
expenses. 

You can also create and save a custom balance sheet report which will only
list the accounts associated with 1 person the same way.

If you customize a report and save it you can use it whenever you need and
just adjust the dates as required

1. I assume for the expenses Family account, you wish to know how much each
person has paid for the expenses in that category.  If you use the
Transaction report you can display all of the transactions to the
Expenses:Family account which credited a particulargroup of asset asset
accounts ( either an individual asset account or a group of selected asset
accounts for the one person.

once you create a report

3. GnuCash cannot do anything about that as the Android version is not
produced by the GnuCash team but AFAIK it doesn't use the GnuCash program
data file and you have to import by either QIF or CSV from the app to your
main GnuCash file. In that case you can have an account structure just for
each individual on each person's mobile phone and then import the records
into the appropriate person's account in your main GnuCash file as required.

I would certainly separate any business in a separate books In most
jurisdictions for most business types that is likely to be a legal
requirement anyway.

David Cousens



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