[GNC] "Travel" vs. "Public Transportation"

[Christopher Lam]

The acid test is usually-- will it help your financial reporting to meet
you tax or business or personal obligations? Do you need to discriminate
between the two for any particular reason?

On Mon, 22 June 2026, 5:33 pm rsbrux via gnucash-user, <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I just noticed that I have two overlapping expense accounts, "Public
> Transportation" and "Travel". I think that both accounts were in the
> default GnuCash account tree, but "Public Transportation" is not a sub-
> account of "Travel", which is what I would have expected.
> We live in Europe and often travel by train and/or bus for both short
> distances and on vacation, so I'm not sure where to draw the line
> between these two.
> What arguments can be made for and against maintaining two such
> separate categories?
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