[GNC] Gnucash account reporting

[Brad Morrison]

Hi Ronald/GNUCash users, 

Just to cover the basics: 

What version of GNUCash are you using?
https://gnucash.org/download.phtml - 5.11 is the current version. 

What operating system are you using? 

As far as your specific naming concern: how many different expense
accounts do you have? Are you primarily trying to reduce the number of
expense accounts or make the names more consistent across years or GNC
files or something else? 

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On 2025-04-23 18:22, David Cousens wrote:

> Ron,
> 
> Renaming accounts is no problem at all. From the Account Tab, select
> the Account, Right click and select Edit Account.  In the name field of
> the dialog just enter the new name you desire.  You can rearrange
> accounts within a given top level account type by changing the parent
> account field. It is also possible to create placeholder accounts which
> serve as the parent account for a number of sub-accounts which will
> total into the placeholder account but no transactions are allowed with
> entries in the placeholder. That is also an option in the edit account
> dialogue.
> 
> It is a bit more complicated if you need to change the account type as
> this may change the meaning of debit and credit entries to the account,
> particularly changing between Asset accounts and either Liability or
> Equity account or between income and Expense accounts. You may also
> need to consider the sense of entries to other accounts affected by the
> transaction.
> 
> If you delete an account which has transactions affecting the account,
> GnuCash will ask you for an account to transfer the transaction entries
> to. You can either choose an existing account or create a new account.
> 
> David
> 
> On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 20:39 -0400, Ronald Solomon 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
> 
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