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An error occurred while saving the comment Bob Brush
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You also might want to look at the budget feature and use that, it allows full use of all the accounts, so you can do the kind of things people do, like rob savings accounts, credit cards.. but still keep the over all goal in mind. On the sample file you linked to try this: On the menu select >>Action>Budget>New Budget, now select >>Edit>Budget Options.. Change the date to a relevant date, in this case 2013, and I would rename to something specific, you can have His Budget and then later Her Budget, or What I Want vs What I Need.. Now expand all the sub accounts by clicking the plus sign next to them after that press "Ctl+a" on the keyboard to select all accounts, and then on the menu >>Edit>Estimate Budget.. It will autofill in based on the existing data.. Now you can change any of the cells to what is needed and even change the date to this year, ect.. Cool?
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I might not be understanding what you are trying to say, but I think that you can accomplish this goal using the existing account types. If I was going to try this, maybe make the top level account an asset or accounts receivable type, and then make sub account (the plan) of type accounts receivable, and the other sub account (expense plans/trackers) of type accounts payable. These types will automatically zero out as you enter things in both registers. Note that you can change the type to A/R or A/P and the color in the list of accounts will change to red or black, but the math gnucash does underneath doesn't change. So if you enter data in the reverse order in one or the other accounts it will sum both sub accounts regardless of their type.. this can be somewhat confusing, but don't worry gnucash is coded to sanity, so most of the things you can't do will be things you really can't do, like spend the same money twice, ect..
It may take a few trys to help model the exact situation.http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-help/acct-types.html
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An error occurred while saving the comment Bob Brush
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Checkout in the menu >>Business>>Customer Summary
A really good report, you can select and deselect accounts in the options.http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash#Customer_Summary_Report
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An error occurred while saving the comment Bob Brush
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Also on the Customer Summary Report there is an entry for "No Customer" this is the total of all entries that are not tagged. It can be a useful indicator of how valuable the rest of the report is.
An error occurred while saving the comment Bob Brush
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GnuCash does have a little known feature that can accomplish some of these scenarios, but it requires the use of the business features, and it is not documented so you are kind of on your own to figure it out. In the example above you would create an Electricity Vendor, and a Property Customer, then when you create a Bill for the Electricity Vendor, on the same box enter Property1 for the customer. Now on the Bill you enter the line whatever the charge is for, select the account Expenses:Electricity and the amount, then post the invoice. At this point we have "tagged" the expense while still in the proper account with the property. You can also enter rental charges and payments by creating an invoice for property1. It gets even better. After entering all the utilities, and the loan payment for the property1, and entering the rent charged you can run a report and determine the profitability of property1. Look in the Reports menu for Business and then Customer Summary. This report totals everything "tagged" by Customer and displays the total income, expenses, and the difference, including the %. You can sort the report by name, profit, expense, or income. You can also select or deselect expense and income accounts, to enable yet another degree of control, in the case of Income:Commercial Rent and Income:Residential Rent or whatever the case may be. There are also the concept of "Jobs" which are yet another subcategory under Customers, although I have not used this feature. In the future we may consider a report for jobs or extend the existing report.
Adjusting Hotkeys
The accelerator map can be edited on Windows (where it's somewhere like C:\Users\USERNAME\.gnucash\accelerator-map in the case of Vista) or Mac (where it's ~/Library/Application Settings/Gnucash/acclerator-map), and Linux (it should be in ~/.gnucash/accelerator-map).
I think you are looking for:
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/RemoveTransactionSplitsAction" "<Primary>backslash")
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(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/GncPluginPageRegisterActions/SplitTransactionAction" "<Primary>space")
You can of course change it to whatever works in your situation.. I hope this helps!
I use WYSIWYG shortcut editing in Linux, but it doesn't work for everyone, it is somewhat mentioned here: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Keyboard_Shortcuts