[moneydance] Separate Accounts in Moneydance

[Edward Reid]

At 07:53 05/12/07 +1000, Paul wrote:
>Yes having the two sets of accounts as children of the two groups would
>achieve my aims.  How do you do that?

In the account creation process, there's a pop-up to indicate the parent 
account. The default is the root account, so you never notice it when all 
accounts are directly under the root.

At 20:01 05/11/07 -0500, Bradley Pursley wrote:
>The only problem is that MD adds the totals from the child accounts to
>the main accounts on the summary screen thereby making it impossible to
>quickly track how much is actually separated out to each account.

It's not clear to me what you are objecting to, unless as someone else 
suggested you have transactions directly within the parent accounts. Don't 
do that. In general, when you use multi-level accounts, the parent accounts 
should not contain any transactions, just other accounts. (In fact, I wish 
I could tell MD to prevent me from creating transactions in these "folder" 
accounts, because I never intend to do that and tend to lose the 
transactions. Perhaps an account option ...)

Edward
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