I am in an identical position in this regard, although a couple of years further down the road.
I chose to start from a base Chart of Accounts, delete everything obviously unnecessary, and then add anything that proved to be necessary. The two charts of accounts are not as similar as one might think at first blush. Happy to provide more via PMs if you’re interested. Sent from my iPad > On Nov 18, 2025, at 4:43 PM, Bruce Griffis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was the financial power of attorney for my mom for the past few years, > and kept her finances in GnuCash. She passed away, so FPOA is no longer in > effect. I am the executor for her estate. My thought is to duplicate her > current GnuCash file, empty out the transactions, and start new with same > chart of accounts and set opening balances to be what her balances were as > of yesterday. Would that be the right way to handle this? > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
