On 4/29/20 11:25 AM, 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.
When I've had problems changing the account type on an account, I found that changing the parent first opens up the additional account types to be used. Don't know if that will work for A/R (as I don't utilize them). > > 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 -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 _______________________________________________ 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.