Re: [GNC] Sub-Accounting (Was: Problem with missing balance in a parent account **FINAL POST**)

2022-10-13 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 10/13/2022 1:46 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: I agree. Some years ago, there were a few threads here that delved into various means of implementing an envelope method in GnuCash and my personal take-away was, while it can be done, the only sane method is lots of work. (you mention a not so

Re: [GNC] Sub-Accounting (Was: Problem with missing balance in a parent account **FINAL POST**)

2022-10-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I agree. Some years ago, there were a few threads here that delved into various means of implementing an envelope method in GnuCash and my personal take-away was, while it can be done, the only sane method is lots of work. (you mention a not so sane method, or rather, one that could quickly

Re: [GNC] Sub-Accounting (Was: Problem with missing balance in a parent account **FINAL POST**)

2022-10-13 Thread John Layman
The moment you split a large deposit between multiple sub-accounts you have fragmented the correspondence between the bank statement and your books. And, as you note, transferring funds between the sub-accounts introduces transactions that have nothing whatsoever to do with the account as the

[GNC] thanks to Goeff and Gnucash

2022-10-13 Thread James Baxter via gnucash-user
I am James Baxter. as I through I will say thanks to Goeff for his (I think I spell his name wrong) help with entering stock/tickers into Gnucash. So when you enter the stock, In accounts I click on New, then added all the stock I have. I have 12 of them. So with the help of Goeff and the