Assuming you both have individual accounts, you can already set up a hierarchical structure with parent 'owner' (set as placeholder) with children asset accounts 'husband' and 'wife'. If you have a joint account then stick to 1 account for both.
The main advice we can offer is to stick to "1 GnuCash asset/liability account = 1 Bank/Creditcard/Loan Account", which will facilitate reconciliation, and "1 GnuCash income/expense account = 1 income/expense *category*" where category reflects the Quicken terminology. If you have individual accounts, you can use a symbol to tag them eg "#" for yourself and "@" for wife, and the Transaction Report filter can be used to select the accounts for reporting at your leisure. So a sample chart may be: - Asset - Bank - Husband# - Wife@ - Fixed - House - Investments - Funds - Liability - Loan - Income - Husband Salary# - Wife Salary@ - Expense - Combined@# - Husband# - Wife@ Thereby filter with account filter '#' will report on all your transactions, and @ with the wife's. On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 10:21, Sachin Danave <sachin.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry I was not clear on my requirement. > > I want a Classification field which is attached to an account. This could > be an "owner", so while we have a single Parent Bank account, and 2 > accounts of me and my wife below it, I need something to tag these > accounts. That way, when I run a report, I will be able to segregate these > accounts. > > Other option is to have a separate hierarchy, but that just increases the > number of accounts. > > In general, can we add any custom fields at all to the tables / forms ? > > I work for an ERP Software company and this is a fairly standard feature > across such packages. > > Thank you all for your response. It has been really heartening to see all > of you responding. > > By the way, I am very happy with Gnucash features - it is a very feature > rich system. The Get Quotes works intermittently, but that is something I > can put up with. > > Thanks and Regards > > Sachin > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 3:04 PM Jeff Abrahamson <j...@p27.eu> wrote: > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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. 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