If they are accounts that no longer have any value (monetarily I mean) but when you look at the account it says it has a value then your accounts are in error. Add a transaction to bring the value to zero.
Colin On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 14:43, Bridgit Griffin <bridgitgrif...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <m...@chilwell.net> 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 <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.
