Sorry, forgot to change subject line! On Mon, 2026-06-22 at 16:08 +0200, rsbrux wrote: > Thanks for the very sensible advice. We don't really need to know our > travel expenses in that much detail, and since we are retired, almost > all of our travel is discretionary (with the possible exception of > medical appointmemts ;-). > The only use I can think of for a separate account would be to > calculate which kind of annual pass (e.g. reduced fare) for public > transportation might be most economical. However, we could probably > figure that out by using a report filtered by payee (assuming there > is > such a thing). > > On Mon, 2026-06-22 at 08:43 -0400, [email protected] > wrote: > > To: rsbrux <[email protected]> > > Cc: "[email protected] List" <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [GNC] "Travel" vs. "Public Transportation" > > Message-ID: > > < > > canyj2e3oq4knxuq_-xissbtztlthybwhg_0ocsoozc2z7bm...@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > I think of personal travel as discretionary. You decide to go on > > what > > I > > would call vacation and what the English would call holiday. > > > > Generally, I think of public transportation is such things as day > > trips > > around town, commuting, etc. > > > > > > Just having come back from vacation, I was bringing my accounts up > > to > > date > > yesterday, and I made a choice to move travel out from under > > entertainment > > to a top level expense, and create subcategories for lodging, > > restaurant, > > fuel, air and rail transportation, etc. This allowed me to produce > > a > > very > > nice report showing what our trip cost and why. > > > > On the other hand, if I took the bus downtown, I would have a > > category for > > that outside of travel. > > > > The most important question though is how do your books serve you, > > as > > opposed to how do you serve your books. Record things that make > > sense > > in > > understanding your finances. > > > > Ed > > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 05:33 rsbrux via gnucash-user < > > [email protected]> 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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