Hi Ael: The short answer is that unfortunately gnuCash does not offer "analytical accounting" features. What quickbooks calls classes, but in some other places are called dimensions or codes or categories, etc. The term is not important, but these types of features allow for orthogonal classification across general ledger accounts. There are workarounds but none of course as powerful or polished as what you would find in applications with full analytical features. But still depending on your needs it might be enough.
There is a long conversation about this in this bug report https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772. Along with some workarounds. One workaround is to use a series of side placeholder accounts that can be filtered on. It's explained at the bottom of this comment: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772#c6 Another workaround is using tags with a custom report I recently made. But it's still limited to one type of report. See this comment: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113772#c53 In some cases, it might also make sense to simply use general ledger accounts for things that you were using classes for. For instance if managing several rental properties, a tree of accounts for each might make more sense than using analytical features. It really comes down to specific uses and needs. And we certainly need more people to share their experience and use cases with these sorts of features in other applications so we can work on better solutions for gnuCash. So feel free to share with the list how you are specifically using classes in QB and we might be able to come up with more targeted feedback. Sincerely, Vincent Dawans On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 8:01 AM aelif aelif <ael...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am an experienced Quickbooks Desktop (QB) User. I am now moving over to > Gnucash because of the newly excessive cost of QB. > > I have scoured the internet for a Gnucash equivalent method for CLASS to > segregate accounts without good results. I have also checked the archives > here by subject. > > Has a method been developed by my fellow users to figure this out? Like > many I have multiple activities that I need to account for. > > Many thanks, AEL > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
