It is actually worse than I at first thought.
In the tutorials it states that you can choose an appropriate Detail Type for a child/sub account.
What it neglects to say is that a sub can only have the same account type as a parent.
So this apparent glimmer of flexibility does not in fact exist.
The only way that I can construct a meaningful chart of accounts with a logical tree structure is to set everything to Expense Other. This entirely negates the supposed "power" of qb to allow you to interrogate your data and get meaningful information out.
I am only hoping that tags work as anticipated and permit application of transactions to jobs.
In the absence of tags I will just pull the plug and ask for a refund as this more than a bit rubbish. I feel distinctly misled.
