Rustler
Level 15

Reports and accounting

Account detail is an intuit invention, it does not exist in accounting, and just confuses people

account detail amounts to naming the account, if you watch when you select a detail type, the name becomes that detail type.  

other than that, and the confusion it causes,  it is useless.

create a parent account for supplies & materials, (you never post to parent accounts they are summing accounts)
make the rest of your supplies & material accounts sub accounts, now they are all together and the parent account shows the total of all sub accounts for taxes

same with other accounts, the only restriction is the the sub accounts be the same type as the parent, all expense, all income etc etc

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