ORPHAN vs. IMBALANCE

[Adam Funk]

On 2015-02-06, Jan Steinman wrote:

>> From: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
>> 
>> Could someone explain to me the difference between ORPHAN and IMBALANCE accounts in GnuCash??
>
> And can you map them into some other account?
>
> I have an account called "Errors and Exceptions." It's main use is
>  when a cash drawer is over or short. In such a case, I'd like the
>  "Balance" button to automagically post to "Errors and Exceptions."

I'd prefer to have an option that will (for manually entered
transactions) never create those unwanted accounts but instead will
just not allow me to complete/save an unbalanced transaction.