Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts and balances
For sanity's sake I imported the Quicken file into another financial program and the results were similar to what is in Quicken. There were many many more accounts that are closed (aka zeroed balances) that GNUcash was reporting differently. And if the account had a balance when I selected closed in the new software that account was removed from the balances. I think it is in the importing process that causes many issues as categories and certain transactions were broken out into their own accounts. Looking like I'll forgo GNUCash for now. Thank you for all the input. On 8/10/18 4:30 AM, Colin Law wrote: I would have expected a closed account to have a zero balance. Colin On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 09:51, Bridgit Griffin mailto:bridgitgrif...@gmail.com>> wrote: I recently imported 20 years of financial data. The issue I'm facing is that marking an account as hidden doesn't remove the balance from the total of the higher level accounts. Such that only active (unhidden) accounts are reflected in totals. Being accustom to Quicken that did have this feature either through a close option or hiding the account removed any of the balances in those accounts from totals. I can't be the first person who has encountered this, but searching didn't produce any relevant results. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto: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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts and balances
It's a nice way to handle joint accounts that are no longer joint yet open. Also, for handling very old accounts not reconciled that are closed. Plus during the import process from Quicken lots of transactions were removed from accounts. For example, anything that says cash or salary. As you all know Quicken allows for categories that GNUcash makes into accounts. They're not really accounts so what is getting closed? It was a category in Quicken. Why offer hidden when it's not? On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 8:19 AM Maf. King wrote: > Sounds like a bug or mis-feature in quicken to me. I think I'd prefer > that my > accounts package didn't hide money from me. > > Seriously, though thinking about it for a second, what financial > institution > would allow you to close an account you held with them and leave a running > balance for the rest of eternity? (apologies to those planning a meal at > the > Restaurant at the End of the Universe as featured in Hitchhikers Guide to > the > Galaxy) > > If you're hiding an Income / Expense account then surely you don't want to > regard that money as no longer earned / spent? It would throw everything > out > of whack, IMHO. > > 0.02 > Maf. > > > > On Friday, 10 August 2018 14:11:15 BST Bridgit Griffin wrote: > > No not all have zero balances. However, Quicken allows the account to be > > treated as if that is the case. It seems the hidden function in GNUcash > > doesn't function the same way. > > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 4:30 AM Colin Law wrote: > > > I would have expected a closed account to have a zero balance. > > > > > > Colin > > > > > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 09:51, Bridgit Griffin < > bridgitgrif...@gmail.com> > > > > > > wrote: > > >> I recently imported 20 years of financial data. The issue I'm facing > is > > >> that marking an account as hidden doesn't remove the balance from the > > >> total of the higher level accounts. Such that only active (unhidden) > > >> accounts are reflected in totals. Being accustom to Quicken that did > > >> have this feature either through a close option or hiding the account > > >> removed any of the balances in those accounts from totals. I can't be > > >> the first person who has encountered this, but searching didn't > produce > > >> any relevant results. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you. > > >> > > >> ___ > > >> 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. > > > > ___ > > 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. > > > -- > Maf. King > PGP Key fingerprint = 8D68 A91F 733B 2C1F 43B7 2B7C E591 E8E1 0DE7 C542 > > > > > > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] Hidden accounts and balances
No not all have zero balances. However, Quicken allows the account to be treated as if that is the case. It seems the hidden function in GNUcash doesn't function the same way. On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 4:30 AM Colin Law wrote: > I would have expected a closed account to have a zero balance. > > Colin > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 09:51, Bridgit Griffin > wrote: > >> I recently imported 20 years of financial data. The issue I'm facing is >> that marking an account as hidden doesn't remove the balance from the >> total of the higher level accounts. Such that only active (unhidden) >> accounts are reflected in totals. Being accustom to Quicken that did >> have this feature either through a close option or hiding the account >> removed any of the balances in those accounts from totals. I can't be >> the first person who has encountered this, but searching didn't produce >> any relevant results. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you. >> >> ___ >> 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. >> > ___ 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.
[GNC] Hidden accounts and balances
I recently imported 20 years of financial data. The issue I'm facing is that marking an account as hidden doesn't remove the balance from the total of the higher level accounts. Such that only active (unhidden) accounts are reflected in totals. Being accustom to Quicken that did have this feature either through a close option or hiding the account removed any of the balances in those accounts from totals. I can't be the first person who has encountered this, but searching didn't produce any relevant results. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you. ___ 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.
