There's even a function somewhere in the menus to assign codes automatically. Can't recall where it is, or how well it works. ISTR it behaved rather well.
On Jun 13, 2022, 10:52, at 10:52, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >On 2022-06-13 07:31, Gyle McCollam wrote: >> As someone suggested, you could assign account codes and sort on >them. I would use at least a four digit number, so you have room to >add accounts in between in the future. I would suggest 1000s for >assets, 2000s for liabilities, 3000s for income, and 4000s for expense. > > >My old accounting system had three-digit account codes, which I used >when I created my GnuCash chart of accounts. As time went by and I had >to add more accounts, I ended up using decimals. They sot as I >expected, >but it's ugly that most accounts have NNN codes yet some have NNN.N >codes. > >Gyle's suggestion of four-digit codes makes sense to me, in hindsight. >I >almost wrote "if I had it to do over again, I'd use four-digit account >codes." But of course it's possible to change an account code at any >time, so I think I'm off to renumber my accounts now. :-) > >-- >Stan Brown >Tehachapi, CA, USA >https://BrownMath.com >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.