While doing my monthly ritual of breaking down my utility bill into GNUcash, I had the idea of using a user defined currency for electricity (Kilowatt Hours - kWh) and Water (gallons). I'd like to be able to chart my "real usage" as well as rate fluctuations.
I've been using GNUCash for over 10 years, and have created a bunch of custom currencies for stocks / etc; however, this is the first time I thought about using it for tracking utility units. I got as far as creating the kWh currency when I realized that there's no way to choose a "non ISO 4217" currency for expense accounts. The GNUCash documentation seems to indicate that Income and Expense accounts are only able to use "National Currencies" (12.2.1.1. User-Defined Currencies - https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/currency_manual.html <https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/currency_manual.html>). I'm wondering: 1. Is there a functional reason for this requirement; or is it an arbitrary UI restriction? 2. Would the application behave erratically if I were to manually edit the expense account in SQL to use my own currency? 3. How is everyone else handling utility tracking? I realize I'm probably a tad crazy for wanting this level of detail. -- Thanks, _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
