On 2022-06-24 09:18, Jack Lockard wrote: > How could I record a realized gain and only impact one side of the > ledger? I don't think you can. Doesn't the imbalance have to be an > improperly entered transaction?
If you're asking what I think you're asking, that's an impossibility -- not a feature missing from GnuCash, but impossible in terms of double-entry bookkeeping even if you were doing it on paper. In every transaction, total debits must always equal total credits. The GnuCash software creates an "Imbalance" entry if you enter a transaction where debits =/= credits. And in the same way, in the totality of your accounts, total debits (assets + expenses) must equal total credits (liabilities + equity + income). That equation is also written in other ways, for instance Assets =Liabilities + (Equity + Income - Expense), but all of them are equivalent. I think you were advised earlier in this thread to read the tutorial and concepts manual, especially the part about double-entry bookkeeping. Maybe another reading? Your question sounds like you may have read that section but didn't really take it in. > I think I'll just give up. It's my personal finances so I guess, at > the end of the day, it doesn't matter if it is out of balance. Of course you're free to do whatever you like with the software. But, speaking as an old software programmer, I'm always nervous about ignoring an error condition. The problem is, you can't be a little bit pregnant.Once you start ignoring _some_ errors, you ever know whether an error message is showing you a new problem or just echoing the pre-existing one. My advice, for what it's worth, is to track down why you're getting an imbalance, and fix it. Then you can enter new transactions, and if an imbalance pops up you'll know instantly that it must have been from the transaction you just entered, so you can easily fix it right away. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ 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.
