[GNC] How to reorganize the account tree

[Stan Brown]

On 2022-06-13 07:31, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> As someone suggested, you could assign account codes and sort on them.  I would use at least a four digit number, so you have room to add accounts in between in the future.  I would suggest 1000s for assets, 2000s for liabilities, 3000s for income, and 4000s for expense. 

My old accounting system had three-digit account codes, which I used
when I created my GnuCash chart of accounts. As time went by and I had
to add more accounts, I ended up using decimals. They sot as I expected,
but it's ugly that most accounts have NNN codes yet some have NNN.N codes.

Gyle's suggestion of four-digit codes makes sense to me, in hindsight. I
almost wrote "if I had it to do over again, I'd use four-digit account
codes." But of course it's possible to change an account code at any
time, so I think I'm off to renumber my accounts now. :-)

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