I've been meaning to ask about this behavior too. I *think* it started sometime between version 4.1 and 4.4. It seems to me to happen when creating -- or editing -- an account that has a non-currency commodity. As Geoff said, it's a minor nuisance and I just delete the extra accounts when they appear.
But I am curious about the use case that would necessitate this change. Unless creating a new set of books, I'm generally not going to offset an asset acquisition transaction against an opening balance account. But almost any editing of an account setup will trigger the creation of the Opening Balance account. And I'm not sure what the equity account is supposed to show. For example in the following test case: 1) Create an account with type STOCK. Opening Balance tab is greyed out. 2) The stock account and the Opening Balance accounts are created 3) Enter a transaction from the stock account, with a DR to the stock account and a CR to the Opening Balance account. Result shows the transaction in the stock account register as expected; but in the Opening Balance account register, the transaction is entered, but no value in either the DR or CR column 4) Enter a transaction from the Opening Balance account with a CR to the Opening Balance account and a DR to the stock account. Save the transaction and Gnucash displays the transfer dialog. Enter a price and save the transaction. Then the transaction appears as expected in both registers. I'm using the SQLite database, so in the transaction from Step 3, Opening Balance account split shows 0 in the quantity_num field, but the transaction in Step 4 shows the appropriate share value in quantity_num split on both sides of the transaction. Step 3 seems like a bug, notwithstanding the purpose of the Opening Balance account I'm using Gnucash 4.4 in Ubuntu 20.04 as a VM client on a Windows 10 host machine. On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 7:20 PM Geoff <cleanoutmys...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (1) Has anyone else seen this? > > Yes, you are not going crazy, I have had a similar problem on a few > occasions myself in the past month, however I can't put my finger on the > reason why or reproduce it. > > GnuCash 4.4 on Windows 10. > > > > (2) What gives? > > No idea, I just deleted the accounts. It's a minor nuisance. > > > Regards > > Geoff > ===== > > On 18/03/2021 4:00 am, peterb wrote: > > I've been using Gnucash for well over a year and a half. Sometime within > > the past few months, I have seen a number of completely empty Opening > > Balances equity accounts opening themselves for certain securities that I > > own. They are always denominated in the currency of the security; so for > > example I have one right now: > > [image: Screen Shot 2021-03-17 at 12.58.13 PM.png] > > These accounts have no balance, no transactions in them, and *to the best > > of my knowledge* have never had a transaction in them. > > I have asset accounts for about 75 securities, but only see this for > around > > 10 of my securities. Most of them were acquired after starting to use > > GnuCash, so the top-level Equity:Opening-Balances account would not have > > been involved at all. > > > > (1) Has anyone else seen this? > > (2) What gives? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Peter > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
