[GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash databases)?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 06:10:21PM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 4/26/2022 11:25 AM, Chris Green wrote:

> > The --nofile option tells gnucash not to open the last accounts
> > database, it helps a little, but I really want it to forget more!
> > 
> It may be confusing things slightly when you shorten "book of accounts" to
> "accounts" instead of "books" << we usually refer to the financial records
> of an entity as "its books" --- in days of yore when the records were kept
> pen and ink on paper the "journal" and "ledgers" WERE books (bound volumes
> of accounting paper) >>
> 
Yes, I never quite know what to call a GnuCash data file.  As you say
'account' is confusing because GnuCash has multiple 'accounts' within
one file/database.


> Why is remembering in what directory the records for an entity are kept
> easier than remembering the name of the entity?

Because it makes a whole lot more sense (for me anyway) to keep
everything to do with one set of books in one place.  So, for my
church accounts for one particular year I have a directory:-

    ~/pcc/2022

This is very simple to remember and find.  (PCC is Parochial Church
Council).  I have the GnuCash accounts files there, and copies of
letters I have sent, and copies of incoming cheques and records for
GiftAid plus anything else relevant.  

-- 
Chris Green