undo close books?

[Tommy Trussell]

Yes, my apologies. "reconcile."


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > One thing that you CAN do to "lock" changes to an account in GnuCash is
> to
> > BALANCE the account. Then (unless you have chosen to ignore the warnings,
>
> And by "BALANCE" you mean "Reconcile", right?
>
> > which you can always reset) GnuCash will warn you before you make any
> sort
> > of change to the accounts, even to the text of transactions (which
> wouldn't
> > affect the balance).
> >
> > For example I often balance even my Cash in Wallet account; not so that I
> > don't accidentally change old transactions, but so that I can have an
> > estimate for the money I have spent but neglected to record. However,
> > having all my current asset accounts balanced makes it much less likely I
> > will change an old transaction. (Sometimes need to update a description
> on
> > a balanced transaction, so I acknowledge what I'm doing and proceed. I
> > never change the transaction amounts on a balanced account because that
> > would cause trouble.)
>
> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>
> -derek
>
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