I’m a fairly naive user, but I find the Imbalance-XXX and Orphan-XXX accounts (at top level in my CoA) extremely useful, and I understand why they are there. If I ever see a balance, I know I have to fix something, which is a good reason to have them at the top. I can’t comment on any changes that might have occurred in the behaviour of these accounts recently. However, in respect of the tidiness of the CoA, one possible solution is to create a special case for these accounts, such that they only display in the CoA listing when they have a non-zero balance.
Peter — Peter West p...@ehealth.id.au “…unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” > On 2 Jun 2021, at 11:22 am, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, June 1, 2021 9:15 pm, Liz Dodd wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:23:07 -0400 >> "D. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >>> The question about imbalance entries goes back a long ways in >>> GnuCash, and you can find discussions about it in the lists over the >>> years. >>> >>> Essentially, the debate boils down to this: is it better to allow a >>> user to enter an imbalanced transaction and automatically create the >>> balancing entry in a dummy account (Imbalance-XXX generically >>> speaking), or should the program nag the user to balance the >>> transaction every time? Gnucash choose the former many years ago, and >>> has stuck with that model since. >> >> It is a problem when you are not aware of how to enter transactions, >> and press the Enter key, probably by habit. >> Nevertheless I can still find myself with Imbalance entries although I >> have been using Gnucash a long time. > > Most of my Imbalance entries are a result of rounding errors in the > scheduled transaction subsystem. I'll get an extra $0.01 that gets put > into Imbalance, until I get the statement and manually adjust the > transaction. > > In the steady-state, Imbalance account is (and should remain) empty. > >> Liz > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > de...@ihtfp.com <mailto:de...@ihtfp.com> www.ihtfp.com > <http://www.ihtfp.com/> > Computer and Internet Security Consultant > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
