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

[Patrick James]

Unless there is some legal requirement, you may keep your books in any manner you want. That said, following existing accounting standards will allow you to communicate effectively with others, including tax authorities.

There are people who basically never travel by public transportation. And others who use public transportation for business purposes.

If the distinction is not important to your future, if there is no reason for you to separate an expense, then you may just delete the unnecessary account(s).


> On 06/22/2026 2:32 AM PDT 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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