The tax report has a little known option to assign an account to "Copy 2" ie a different tax return. Ithink it is intended for couples filing separate return s, but it could be used other ways.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 11:38 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > You shouldn’t need to create special account trees or sub-accounts. (but > by all means, if you have individual accounts, you should track those > separately) > > The Transaction Report allows you to filter based on text found in > Description, Notes, Memo, etc. You could place a ’tag’ in one of those and > use it to filter a report for each of you. > > It is unfortunate that the P&L (Income Statement) does not have this > feature, but you can get most of the way that with a well crafted > Transaction Report. You might have to export it to a spreadsheet if you > want to prettify it into a proper Income Statement. > > Since you mention your interest to use this for tax purposes, check out > the Tax Report options. There might be something there which can help. (I > think those settings are also by-account and are ‘all or nothing’ without > filters though. I don’t use it, so I can’t say for sure) > > If you do have real separate accounts and have those in your tree, you > don’t need to tag them also. When you run your reports, simply unselect the > account(s) you don’t want to report on, save that as a new configuration > and then you can re-use it in the future. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > On Apr 29, 2019, at 5:18 AM, 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
