[GNC] Keeping tenant accounts on Gnucash - periodic 'rent owing' ?

[Adrien Monteleone]

And on that note,

I highly stress to anyone getting started (or even old hands) to not try 
to artificially combine receipts for convenience. You could if you 
wanted to, but I guarantee, you'll want to 'refactor' some of those line 
items one day, or wish you could.

Just enter receipts as multi-split transactions, line by line, with 
detailed info in the Memo fields. That way, if you ever want to move 
something to a different account in the future, it is possible.

The added bonus is you don't have to do math. GnuCash adds up the 
receipt for you.

If you combine fish with tires today, because you bought them on the 
same visit to Costco, you won't be able to split them up into Groceries 
& Auto 6 months from now.

If you insist on not doing separate line items, recording at least a 
small description for each and their respective amounts in the memo will 
help, but this gets cumbersome any but the simplest of purchases.

While this may sound nuts to some, you'd be surprised how 'auto-fill' on 
a new transaction to any particular store, magically needs little 
editing from visit to visit. It isn't like you're doing lots of data 
entry after a month or so of receipts.

And when you realize tracking Auto vs. Groceries is more important than 
where you bought them, you'll thank me later...

Regards,
Adrien

On 3/5/22 3:13 AM, Liz wrote:
> If you are not sure about the expenses, make lots of expense
> subaccounts to keep them in general categories, and rationalise them
> when you have had a chat with your accountant. In GnuCash its easy to
> join subaccounts and tedious to split them.