[GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

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Why delete an account that's only going to get created again? 


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From: Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed Jun 02 12:25:39 EDT 2021
To: Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au>
Cc: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

> On 2 Jun 2021, at 02:44, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> 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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