I can think of at least two tax account reasons for hidden accounts: 1. If you close or transfer an interest baring account in the middle of the year and want to account for the interest you earned when you do you taxes at the end of the year - rather than close the account - you would hide the 0 balance account for ease
2. I pay off a loan account in the middle of the year where I paid deductible interest and want to account for that deductible interest at the end of the year for tax purpose - again rather than close the account I would hide the 0 balance loan account I can think of one aesthetics reason: If I had several accounts grouped into one large "accumulation account" -- I could hide the underlying accounts where I do the allocation of funds and keep only the group account to show the overall balance. Ken -----Original Message----- From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=cox....@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Tim Hume via gnucash-user Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 10:13 PM To: GnuCash-User <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: [GNC] What is the purpose of hidden accounts? Hi everyone, In GnuCash one can create a hidden account. What legitimate purposes are there for hidden accounts? Regards, Tim. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. _______________________________________________ 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.
