On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 19:31, Don Parris
<parrisdc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 16:20, Don Parris
<parrisdc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Chetan,
Thanks. I will post something first chance I get - could be tomorrow morning though.
I've not made much progress to date, so still need the help. :-(
I now have a work-around. I have a view called amntby_cat that contains the sums by category, which I pull into a LibreOffice Calc sheet. I then use a second sheet with a list of the top-level categories, and a series of formulas to sum all the sub-categories for each top-level category,
I am now curious as to how business accounting databases approach transaction categories? If I am selling widgets to all 7 continents (as i learned them), I might have sales as follows:
Antartica - expeditioners love our widgets!
Europe
Germany
Berlin, Mainz
England
London
Brighton
North America
USA
New York
Atlanta
LA
Mexico
Mexico City
etc... ad nauseum.
But I may only want to see sales by continent.
Or more closely related:
Sales
Advertising
Communications
Operations
parts
labor
Equipment
But I May only want to see the figures summed up at the top-level.
How is this issue approached in other cases? Have I taken a bad approach to my category structure? It appears to be a common approach to categories in general, but is there a solution that better fits my case?
Thanks,
Don
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