[GNC] Gnucash account reporting

[Steve Butler]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 17:41 Ronald Solomon <drsolomondc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I have been using Gnucash for a while and I have notice I was not always
> consistent when naming accounts like under expenses and I would like to see
> if I could clean those up for better reporting. How would be the best way
> to clean up my mess. any help is appreciated
>

I'm not exactly sure what you need.  Are you saying that some expense
accounts are under income?

Or are all expense items scattered under the main Expense account and need
to be grouped and better organized?

In most cases you can edit the leaf accounts and change their parent.  If
the new parent doesn't exist, then you first need to create it before
adding the other accounts under it.

So, the best way is group like expenses together and give them the same
parent account name.  You can go as many levels as you want.  But don't
forget you will have to maintain them and find them easily.  Perhaps build
an outline on paper first.

Do the same for Income, Assets, and Liabilities.

If that doesn't answer your question, then ask again with some examples.

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