On 6/2/21 2:36 PM, David Carlson wrote:
Stephen,
There have been several posts explaining why it can be desirable to
allow postponement of the completion of a balanced transaction because
not all the details are known but the core of the transaction should
not be postponed into oblivion.
I was responding to the question "Why delete an account that's only
going to get created again?". Not commenting on whether or not the
account should be created as needed. Yes, most times being more careful
will eliminate the sudden appearance of the account. Again, note the
"most".
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 4:24 PM Stephen M. Butler
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On 6/2/21 11:22 AM, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
> Why delete an account that's only going to get created again?
1. So you know when something needs attention.
2. Make you more careful to not let the account be created in the
first
place.
--Steve
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Michael Hendry <[email protected]
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> Sent: Wed Jun 02 12:25:39 EDT 2021
> To: Peter West <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Cc: GnuCash users group <[email protected]
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> Subject: Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ??
JUST CURIOUS
>
>> On 2 Jun 2021, at 02:44, Peter West <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I’m a fairly naive user, but I find the Imbalance-XXX and
Orphan-XXX accounts (at top level in my CoA) extremely useful, and
I understand why they are there. If I ever see a balance, I know I
have to fix something, which is a good reason to have them at the
top. I can’t comment on any changes that might have occurred in
the behaviour of these accounts recently. However, in respect of
the tidiness of the CoA, one possible solution is to create a
special case for these accounts, such that they only display in
the CoA listing when they have a non-zero balance.
>>
>> Peter
>
> Why not simply delete the Imbalance and Orphan accounts when
you’ve sorted out the problem and zeroed their contents - they’ll
be created automatically if required.
>
> Michael
>
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