Larry,
Just to clarify because I've seen this general topic before: (on not
being able to enter certain transactions)
You can't enter transactions in the Top-Level accounts because they are
placeholders. Placeholders are just that, they hold place in the account
tree, but are not usable accounts that can hold transactions.
All of the Top-Level accounts: Assets, Expenses, Income, Liabilities,
Equity & Trading, are Placeholder accounts. Users have to create
sub-accounts under these placeholders as types that match them. (it *is*
possible to have mis-matched types in the tree, but not recommended)
You can also create your own sub-account placeholders at various points
in your account tree. Those can't hold transactions either.
Regards,
Adrien
On 5/25/26 12:48 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
You most definitely can have transactions in an equity account. There's nothing
special about them.
On May 25, 2026 4:34:14 PM GMT+05:30, Lawrence Whalen <[email protected]>
wrote:
David if you have the funds in an equity account how do you show they are drawn
if you use them as far as I've seen so far you can't modify or use an
equity account in gnucash for a transaction.
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