I’m not sure why you’re maintaining separate books for each family member but it occurs to me that, rather than keeping them separate and having trouble combining when you want, you might try keeping all the accounts together but giving each a different name (perhaps just add each family member’s initials before each account name). Then you could produce statements which included only those accounts pertaining to one entity at a time.
You could even make each entity account subsidiary to its master account which (the master accounts) would then be the sum of all combined and could be displayed exclusively in the combined entity statements. Without trying it myself I’m not sure how many challenges might arise out of this but it might be worth giving a shot. Jim Thomas On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 10:48 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > As I have replied to Liz and addressing your valid point, i am > maintaining three separate books for each one of us, independent to each > other. And that is why I raised a query how I can combine or consolidate > three books to create one virtual book which I would call a family book. > > > When I suggested a spreadsheet application (instead of paper) to add up > the components of individual family members to get a family totals > report I was not meaning to imply that you could not use gnucash for > that. I make a lot of use of gnucash for "virtual entities". But that is > mainly when "sort of like a real entity" so you want the usual reports > "as if it were a real entity". > > Thus when our "solar system" in effect "pays" an electric bill on my > behalf (we are a "net billing" state) treated as if this "business" > received income (no money has changed hands) and when SRECs it generated > were sold, gets credited for money I received (not it) and debited for > the tax liability I incurred from that. Similarly, while it was (still) > paying off the initial loan, implied interest was an expense, its share > of the property insurance premium, etc. WHY do this? To correctly be > able to determine when this "investment" paid off (as opposed to the > over simplified examples they show you which assume interest rates are > zero and no "other" expenses are incurred) . In other words, when the > initial loan had been paid off in full (out of its net income) THAT the > correct date of being paid off. Currently building a "repair and > replacement" fund. > > However, not going to advise "how to" (set up books for virtual > entities). If you need help, you shouldn't be trying this > > Michael D Novack > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile (my iPhone) _______________________________________________ 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.
