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 <clan...@gmail.com> 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.
