1. Create new accounts as the proper type in the proper place in the tree. 2. Delete each of the current accounts, one at a time, you wish to change.
3. GnuCash will ask you, for each deletion, what you want to do with the transactions the account currently contains. 4. Choose the option to re-assign them to the corresponding new account. Since they are both assets (A/R is an asset) this should go smoothly. Do a test with one account on a copy of the data file just to be sure there are no unforseen issues. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 29, 2020 w18d120, at 1:25 PM, david whiting <d...@davidwhiting.me.uk> > wrote: > > Hello, > > When I first set up my accounts (for a local club) I knew very little > about accounting and misinterpreted some information I was given by an > accountant and ended up creating some sub-accounts in Accounts Receivable. > I now know that was not the correct thing to do, and I should have created > these accounts as straight-forward asset accounts. > > Using gnucash I cannot change the account type for these accounts. When I > use ctrl+e on these accounts I only see account type A/Receivable so I > cannot change them through the GUI. > > I've compared the XML structure of one of these accounts with another > simple asset account and they are the same except for the <act:type>, i.e.: > > <act:type>RECEIVABLE</act:type> > > versus > > <act:type>ASSET</act:type> > > I've tried editing this (on a copy) and simply changing RECEIVABLE to ASSET > seems to work when I re-open the file. Once this is done I used gnucash to > move the account to the correct place in the accounts hierarchy and all > seemed well. > > Before I do this to all instances in my working file are there any > potential adverse consequences that doing this could cause that I am > not aware of? > > Thanks. > > David _______________________________________________ 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.
