If I understand the original question, this is requesting analytical accounting features. This has been mentioned before on this list. I don't believe gnucash currently provides this, thought I'd be very happy to be proven wrong, as it's a feature I also would like.
Jeff On 29/04/2019 09:36, Colin Law wrote: > Is it a big complication to have top level asset accounts Me and Wife > (or whatever) with the relevant bank accounts under them? > > Colin > > On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 05:03, Sachin Danave <sachin.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> This may sound like a feature request, but just wanted to know if anything >> like this already exists. >> >> I am preparing accounts for 2 persons (me and my wife) in the same set up. >> That gives me an advantage of seeing the whole financial status at one go. >> However, for Taxation purposes, I would like to have a dimension that >> specifies the owner of an account. E.g. A Bank account that is owned by me >> and a bank account owned by my wife. I could do this using Subaccounts, >> however, that complicates the Chart of Accounts substantially. Traditional >> accounting packages deal with this by allowing to define a dimension to >> different accounts, whereby you can classify the accounts. This >> classification field then can be used in reporting. >> >> My basic question is, can we add such "custom" fields in Accounts ? If so, >> any guidance is welcome !!! >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Best Regards >> >> Sachin >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. -- Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255 https://www.p27.eu/jeff/ https://www.transport-nantes.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.
