Expense Categories

Stephen J. Gowdy Stephen.Gowdy at cern.ch
Tue Apr 1 04:12:02 EDT 2008


You just treat them like other accounts. You can add, delete or edit 
accounts. It will even allow you to autocreate accounts if you enter them 
(and they don't exist) as part of a new transaction.

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Tony Nelson wrote:

> Hi Again,
>
> By the way, I found the expense categories in the checkbook split view.
> But I still do not see where I can add/modify/delete expense categories.
>
> --Tony
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 00:42 -0700, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have just started to play with and evaluate GnuCASH.  So I am a real
>> newbee, and I do not consider myself an accomplished bookkeeper either.
>> But I have used QuickBooks for the last 15 years or so to manage a small
>> business.
>>
>> My question: In QuickBooks, when you write a check, the expenses get
>> broken down into user-defined expense categories (e.g., travel, business
>> meals, entertainment).  I do not see a place to create a list of expense
>> categories.  Am I missing it, or does it not exist with this package?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --Tony
>>
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