Frank As christopher and Adrien have commented, GnuCash is forgiving in that if you have assigned an account to a specific type, you can easily change the type of an account and the account types are used for specific functionality, not just in GnuCash but in accounting in general. The Netherlands has adopted the IFRS international accounting standards as the basis of its accountingsystem as has the EU generally so the basic account types are the same.
There is one proviso on changing the type of a specific account by editing the account type in the dialog . If you have existing transactions which have been created assuming the account was of one specific type, for example an Asset account, changing the account type to Liability for example will not change those existing transactions so that they are correct for the new account type. The transactions might have to be corrected manually by editing and in the case described changing debit entries of the account you have changed to credit entries and vice versa. There is a relationship between the account type and the way debits and credits affect the balance of each type of account. This is fundamental to the way double entry accounting works and it will be helpful to assign the type of account correctly before you start entering transactions. Before that you can change them at will. The Introductory section of the current version GnuCash Tuorial and Concepts guide (https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/index.html) explains this relationship if you are not already familiar with it. That is for an English version of the guide as I could not find a link to a Dutch translation of the current version of the guide. Wikipedia's sections on double entry accounting also had a fairly good explanation of this. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.