[GNC] Order of accounts, auto numbering transactions.

[Michael or Penny Novack]

> First two questions below.
>
> How do I set up my accounts in an order that I prefer rather than alphabetical?

You have received one answer for this (using account numbers). Account 
numbering is rather common in accounting, but can involve significant 
work when/if major changes to the CoA happen. An alternative is to have 
human meaningless prefixes to account names to control the collating 
sequence. Unlike account numbers these can be used JUST where needed. It 
is not unusual to consider the ordering OK for most of the CoA but you 
want something different in one or two places.

In other words, the order is "Bank of America" above "Springfield 
Savings Bank" and you want that reversed (but everything else is OK. 
Instead of applying numbering to all of your accounts, you could just 
rename those two "b-Bank of America" and "a-Springfield Savings Bank"

> How do I turn on auto numbering of transactions?

What do you mean by THIS? In normal bookkeeping the order in which 
transactions are entered into the books is unrelated to the order in 
which they are meant to appear in the books. Order of entry would only 
apply to those cases where "the same" with regard to any of the things 
(like date, check number, etc.) that are used to order transactions in 
the books. Bookkeeping is not a "real time" process.


Michael D Novack