May be side effect from https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/762
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, 11:09 am Robin Chattopadhyay, <robinra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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. 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