On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 09:10:36AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > The only problem with GnuCash was the U/I: it made it exceedingly > awkward to work with large #s of accounts, because of all the modal > dialogs to enter them. Nothing wrong with the concept.
As you said, what Money/Quicken call Categories are really accounts. The Account structure can really be inferred as you enter them. One of the things I wished GnuCash would have done would be to automatically prune unused accounts. They don't need to hide the double-entry-ness, but they do need to make it easy. I forget the specifics, but to really do it right and make everything end up "properly zeroed out" you needed sometimes multiple accounts to represent the same entity -- I'm thinking of receiving a paycheck from an employer who also funds your 401K and pays your taxes. Only your gross pay is "Accounts Payable." There would be a super-account to represent your employer, who makes various transactions to your Tax account, 401K accounts payable, Gross-Pay-Accounts-Payable. Then you have to have transactions to move things from the accounts payable to your Checking, Cash, or 401K Balance account. Only *then* can you start to track how you keep the money. I'm remembering now that's when I gave up -- I was going to have to enter multiple accounts per "entity", and there was no autopruning or bookeeping assistance, so it was going to be a maintenance nightmare. But really the whole account structure was easily inferrrable, it is doable with the right U/I. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
