[GNC] New top-level accounts

[David Cousens]

Brook

The closest you can get with GnuCash is to have separate subaccounts
for each entity under each of the top level accounts.

David Cousens

On Sat, 2024-09-07 at 12:10 -0600, Brook Milligan via gnucash-user
wrote:
> 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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