On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 12:28, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assets/Current Assets/Charity/Charity Current > Assets/Current Assets/Charity/Charity Savings > > I’d like to be able to report on both accounts as if they were a single > account (the spreadsheet simply treated these as a single account and > ignored the transfers between the accounts) but a request for a report on > the parent (Assets/Current Assets/Charity) in a Balance Sheet report gives > a zero result. > Are you using the default Balance Sheet? You'll need to choose, from Display / Parent account balances or Parent balance subtotals, a suitable choice. Hint: don't choose subtotals in both. > B. Some charitable receipts are earmarked as they are received - e.g. > > Income/Earmarked Funds/Polio Plus > Income/Earmarked Funds/Water Account > > and I’d like a similar composite report on the children of > Income/Earmarked Funds, preferably on the same report as in A. above, to > guide members on what is actually available for them to spend. > Is this the best way of recording earmarked funds? I'd imagine recording from the donor, wish #polioplus in description, would be more suitable? Anyway, Transaction Report, originating from Earmarked Funds account, select children. > C. Sometimes a decision is made to commit funds already collected but in a > situation where the money won’t be spent immediately - e.g. a building > project. > > This is obviously similar to the Earmarked Funds in B., but I’m not sure > how best to handle it. > > I could create a transaction between the Charity Current Account with > today’s date and Expenses/Charity/Committed Funds as the destination > account. > This is similar to budgeting? If this internal allocation of funds isn't to be used anywhere else, would an asset account were created as a child of Asset/CurrentAssets/Charity called 'Restricted Funds', and transferred to Asset/EarmarkedFunds/Projects be better, and check the parent-account balance to determine 'unallocated funds' ? I don't know. What *could* be implemented, is the concept of 'virtual transactions' whereby the balances are counted separately from the real-life transactions _______________________________________________ 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.
