Setting up sub accounts after entries made to a regular account.

Hello PatMcC,

Using sub-accounts in the chart of accounts is a great way to organize and manage your books in even more details. I can appreciate wanting to know how these accounts interact with each other in QuickBooks Online to make sure you have everything as it needs to be.

When you enter a transaction that allocates to a sub-account, the parent account will also display that same transaction. It isn't duplicating it in this instance since it's the exact same transaction as the one in the sub-account. On reports and in other areas of your books, the amount will be calculated once. This means, if you were to delete it from the parent account, it would also disappear from the sub-account.

I've got a couple of articles here that might be useful to you for this situation.

• Understand the chart of accounts in QuickBooks

• Add to or edit the Chart of Accounts

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