[GNC] Using GnuCash with charity restricted and unrestricted funds, advice wanted

[Adrien Monteleone]

Both Michael & user 'flywire' have offered the 'how to do that' answer.

Michael's answer involves out-of-the box reports that are further 
manipulated outside of GnuCash to achieve the desired end result, using 
the standard method of entering transactions. (this is quite normal for 
anything but the most basic of reporting needs)

Flywire's answer involves a custom report that someone else was kind 
enough to craft, that you have to add to GnuCash yourself first and then 
use 'tags' in your transactions for your extra reporting dimension.

But in both cases, none of us know what the legal requirements of your 
jurisdiction are. We can make suggestions and offer general guesses 
based on the reasoning of what the term 'restricted funds' means with 
respect to where they belong in the account tree, but if your accountant 
or legal counsel tell you otherwise, you have to follow what *they* tell 
you, not take the suggestions here. If you are not sure how to follow 
*their* advice using GnuCash, we can probably help, or at least suggest 
that you may have to do some finishing work on your reports with other 
software.

Regards,
Adrien

On 5/27/24 8:12 AM, Edward Bainton wrote:
>> You have to know that first, then ask, "How do I accomplish this using
> GnuCash?"
> 
> Think of funds accounting as different colours of money. Every account and
> every category can include any colour of money.
> 
> I need the gross figure for each account and category, the figure for each
> account and category broken out into the colours of money that it’s
> comprised of, and I need to report on the overall financial position and
> movements in any given period of each colour of money, detailing which
> accounts and categories it’s comprised of.
> 
> How do I accomplish this using GnuCash?