[moneydance] Child of?

[Stan]

On 6/27/2007 at 11:01 PM Stan wrote:

>I have our savings account as a parent.  I created a child account called
>"Emergency Fund" and another child account called "Christmas Fund."

Oh, I almost forgot this...

I created an account called "Major CC," and one called "Gas CC" and one
called "Department Stores" or something like that.  None of these has any
funds in it or any transactions whatsoever, but all of our credit card
accounts are children of whichever is appropriate.

What I get from this is something like a tree/folder structure when I look
at them on the home page.  I just find it easier to find what I'm looking
for with a little organization applied to them.  Without this structure,
they're all just listed alphabetically.

As far as lumping the funds goes, the only thing I get out of it is that on
the home page, the balance for "Gas CC" shows the total of the balances of
all gas credit card accounts.  I forgot to mention in my earlier example
that the home page shows the combined total for the savings account,
although in the register for it, the emergency fund and Christmas fund
monies (and transactions) don't show up.

It's easy enough to try this out to see what I'm talking about.  Create the
parent, then check the box on accounts to become the children.  You can
easily uncheck the boxes and go back to a "flat" structure, with no loss of
data.

Stan