They are both debit balanced accounts. Moving the errant asset account to an expense type wouldn’t change the debit/credit (sign) of the changed account, and the other split could be left alone. (of course, it might be wrong also, but that is a bigger problem for the user)
So the incorrect entry might be: Dr. Assets:Bad Account Cr. Assets:Cash or Dr. Assets:Bad Account Cr. Liabilities:Credit Card The fixed versions would be: Dr. Expenses:Correct Account Cr. Assets:Cash or Dr. Expenses:Correct Account Cr. Liabilities:Credit Card The same would hold true if the errant account had all credit balances, they would just become ‘refunds/returns’ of expenses. This depends of course on the user getting the debits and credits right in the first place to model the real world event correctly. (just with one of the account types wrong) Regards, Adrien > On May 2, 2020 w18d123, at 1:48 AM, D. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Just fishing, but wouldn't the signs change if you moved an asset account, > say, to expenses? How would/should GnuCash handle existing transactions in > such a moved account? > > David T. _______________________________________________ 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.
