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

[D.]

Yeah,  I actually don't care about the account existing; it's easy enough to correct the problems, which, quite frankly, are more trouble to avoid than fix. So, I'm happy just to let it be there, which cuts down on my having to alter my CoA. 

And as I have noted time and time and time again in this thread, my quibble is with the change in GnuCash behavior with version 4.5. No one has explained why this change has occurred, let alone explain to me what I might do, short of downgrading and staying forevermore on 4.4, to get this fixed. 

David


-------- Original Message --------
From: "Stephen M. Butler" <stephen.m.butler51 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed Jun 02 17:23:54 EDT 2021
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

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 <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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