Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-17 Thread flywire
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2024-April/111588.html Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > I don't think you are picturing what I meant by both ways. Yes, it is very clear but given my experience with other financial software I don't agree endlessly dividing the COAs into unknown

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-17 Thread R Losey
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 4:09 PM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > If the events are fixed, such as "Memorial Day Celebration" and > "Independence Celebration", you could make an expense category and then > have sub-categories for it. I assume that you can run P on

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
If the events are fixed, such as "Memorial Day Celebration" and "Independence Celebration", you could make an expense category and then have sub-categories for it. I assume that you can run P on one set  of categories. Would that work? You'd have similar sub-categories. I'm pretty sure you

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-17 Thread R Losey
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 8:44 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> d) What you can;t do is have it both ways. Traditional double entry > >> bookkeeping allows only one tree structure for the CoA. To get it > >> different in different reports you would have to BOTH

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-17 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
d) What you can;t do is have it both ways. Traditional double entry bookkeeping allows only one tree structure for the CoA. To get it different in different reports you would have to BOTH set up the CoA correctly AND select just certain accounts for the report. Of course you can by running the

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
or more expenses (at least interest; maybe insurance, fees, and others depending on the terms of the loan) and principal payment that reduces the loan amount. Property owners also need to distinguish between maintenance and improvements: The latter increase the value of the property, the former

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread Steve Butler
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 10:49 john wrote: > > > > On Apr 14, 2024, at 17:45, Oleander via gnucash-user < > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my > apartment expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs? I'd like to > record

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread john
> On Apr 14, 2024, at 17:45, Oleander via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Hello, > is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment > expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs? I'd like to record my > Utilities expenses separately within another account so that my

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread R Losey
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 4:26 AM Oleander via gnucash-user < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > Hello, > is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment > expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs? I'd like to record my > Utilities expenses separately within another account

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/14/2024 8:45 PM, Oleander via gnucash-user wrote: Hello, is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs? I'd like to record my Utilities expenses separately within another account so that my "Housing" account adds up only

Re: [GNC] What account name do you use to record the apartment/house expenses related to the building?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael Hendry
On 15 Apr 2024, at 01:45, Oleander via gnucash-user wrote: > > Hello, > is "Housing" a proper account name if I want to include only my apartment > expenses like Rent/Mortgage and Repairs? I'd like to record my > Utilities expenses separately within another account so that my "Housing" >