Hi David, I figured out that I needed to add a final transaction to close out some unused accounts. However, I have a few that I don't know how to close out.
For example, I started an "Investments" account to monitor my 401K contributions and abandoned it. It now has a total of $12,900, which is being included in the reports. How do I close this account while keeping the transactions? On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 7:14 AM David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > Lorrie, > > There are some other choices. > > If you want some accounts that you do not use to be omitted from some > reports use the Accounts selection for those reports to only select the > accounts you want. > > If there are old accounts that are essentially just missing the last > transaction to close them out, just add a transaction to transfer the > balance to equity. Give it an appropriate date in the past. > > > David C > > > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:04 AM Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, January 25, 2019 9:51 am, Lorrie Laskey wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I have a few old, unused accounts with dollars amounts that are not >> > accurate that are showing up when doing reports, skewing the data. >> > >> > How do I delete the accounts but not the transactions? >> >> When you delete an account, GnuCash will ask you what to do with all the >> transactions in the account. Your choices are basically: >> >> * move them into another account, or >> * move them into Orphan-XXX (where XXX is the currency) >> >> There is no way to "mass delete" a bunch of transactions. >> >> > Credit card payments were made from my checking account, so deleting the >> > transactions would remove them from the checking account. >> >> Let me ask you a different question here.. Credit card payments were made >> from your checking account to the CC account -- so if THOSE transactions >> were correct, then... where is the problem? Is the problem that you did >> not account for your actual CC charges? >> >> What balances are "off"? >> >> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> -derek >> >> -- >> Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 >> de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com >> Computer and Internet Security Consultant >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.