On Monday, April 29th, 2024 at 10:48, hh8...@gmail.com <hh8...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It’s more challenge to solve the general problem. For example, there
> are multiple sub-account under main Account “Travel”.
> The Tag is used to select the travel destination.
> This creates a 2-D setup where you can track different
> expense types for each destination.
Slightly different thinking required for GnuCash
In general, let's say you have
Expenses
Travel
Accom
Excursions
Flights
Insurance
but to break things down by destination, move to using
Expenses
Travel
Dest1
Accom
Excursions
Flights
Insurance
Dest2
Accom
Excursions
Flights
Insurance
Then again, unless your trips to more than one spatial
destination overlap in time, and you often find yourself
in two places at once, maybe limit your reporting by the
start and end date of each trip?
Another way to do "tagging", although you might actually lose
some visibility, depending on how good your report writing
is, would be to create a "placeholder" Equity account for
each Destination, as the "tag", so
Equity
Dest1
Dest2
and make each Expense be a Split containing the actual
Tcategrory amount, say to Accom, plus a Zero amount TXN
to, say, Equity:Dest1
That way, when you look at the TXNs in the Equity:Dest1
account register, you would at least have all Dest1 TXNs
grouped together, although they'd all show as "Split", in
the register, unless you turned on View->Transaction Journal
and even then you would still only be viewing the categories,
not really collating across them.
As I say though, I'm even less sure whar any of the standard
reports, made against that account structure, would produce.
Finally, although it's been ages since I did anything with
the Business parts of Gnucash, maybe there's a way, using
its Customer and Invoice functionality, to overlay a form
of "tagging/compartmentalisation" on top of transactions.
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