On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 20:29, Maf. King <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just a thought - if you change the account parent away from A/R can you then > change the type? > > HTH, > Maf. >
No, unfortunately moving the parent account doesn't allow me to change it. David > > > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 19:25:25 BST david whiting wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When I first set up my accounts (for a local club) I knew very little > > about accounting and misinterpreted some information I was given by an > > accountant and ended up creating some sub-accounts in Accounts Receivable. > > I now know that was not the correct thing to do, and I should have created > > these accounts as straight-forward asset accounts. > > > > Using gnucash I cannot change the account type for these accounts. When I > > use ctrl+e on these accounts I only see account type A/Receivable so I > > cannot change them through the GUI. > > > > I've compared the XML structure of one of these accounts with another > > simple asset account and they are the same except for the <act:type>, i.e.: > > > > <act:type>RECEIVABLE</act:type> > > > > versus > > > > <act:type>ASSET</act:type> > > > > I've tried editing this (on a copy) and simply changing RECEIVABLE to ASSET > > seems to work when I re-open the file. Once this is done I used gnucash to > > move the account to the correct place in the accounts hierarchy and all > > seemed well. > > > > Before I do this to all instances in my working file are there any > > potential adverse consequences that doing this could cause that I am > > not aware of? > > > > Thanks. > > > > David > > > -- > Maf. King > PGP Key fingerprint = 8D68 A91F 733B 2C1F 43B7 2B7C E591 E8E1 0DE7 C542 > > > > > -- David Whiting _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
