[GNC] New top-level accounts

Brook Milligan brook at nmsu.edu
Sat Sep 7 14:10:16 EDT 2024


I am trying to create a book that includes within it records for two top-level entities that are closely coupled.  For example, consider Family and Sole Proprietor.  Within each, I of course want the normal subaccounts (assets, liabilities, equity, expenses, income) with their various subaccounts.  

When creating a new top level account, I am forced to give it a category, which dictates the possible categories that subaccounts may use.  This clearly makes it impossible to accomplish what I need (which was a suggested solution given here a few weeks ago).  

It seems that it should be possible to create a new top level account that has no category associated with it and allows any categories to be applied to subaccounts.

Is this possible?  Am I understanding the limitations of GC correctly?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Brook



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