On 5/31/2021 1:08 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
Please re-read my email. In it you will see that I am NOT/NOT asking
about how to handle entries that are automatically added to
Imbalance-USD. I am fully aware of Gnucash behaviors in regard to the
creation of entries into Imbalance-USD, and I have a long-established
workflow in place for handling such created entries.
What I was noting is a CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR from earlier versions of
Gnucash. In earlier versions, entries to Imbalance-USD would be added
to the EXISTING Imbalance-USD account, regardless of its placement in
the Chart of Accounts. In my books, I moved Imbalance-USD to be a
child account of a new Top Level account that I created called
"Special Accounts."
David, for a very good reason, I suspect you were not seeing the
behavior you thought you were seeing. An account is NOT defined by its
name but by its name within the context of its position in the tree (the
CoA). Does you CoA not have ANY account names that are duplicated except
for their position in the tree? For example, suppose among your expenses
you were tracking the costs associated with automobiles, with one of
these being fuel.
Expenses
Automobile expenses
Auto 1
fuel
Auto 2
fuel
Now those two accounts for fuel have the same name but they are NOT the
same account. You would not expect to simply specify "fuel" as the
account affected by a transaction but also which one you meant.
But you are saying you had this working for the name "Imbalance". That
you moved this to a different place in the tree but gnucash still
treated it as the same account as the normal (special account) Imbalance.
Michael D Novack
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