[GNC] New top-level accounts

[Murugan Mariappan]

I have a similar situation and find that keeping two separate books makes tracking financials much cleaner and more effective. I'm not entirely sure why you'd need to combine two entities into a single instance. As far as I know, GNUCash does not support managing two separate entities within the same set of books.
One alternative is to create separate entities under each category (assets, liabilities, etc.), but this approach might not fully meet your needs.




Saludos Cordiales


Murugan

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+m.muruganandam=hotmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Brook Milligan via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: 07 September 2024 14:10
To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: [GNC] New top-level accounts

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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