[gnucash-user] Balancing

[Thibaut Cousin]

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Le Jeudi  5 Juillet 2001 22:21, vous avez écrit :
> >   I've recently switched from Gnucash 1.4.x to 1.6.0. My old account has
> > been successfully imported, everything seems fine... but one detail.
> >   I have only an ordinary check account. In Gnucash 1.4, I was able to
> > add check and credit card operations "naturally".
> >   But in 1.6, for every operation I enter, Gnucash asks me to balance it
> > and gives me three possibilities. Only one of them works : a new account
> > is created (I have the french name in mind, but the english one must be
> > "unbalanced account" or the like) and the opposite operation is added to
> > this new account.
> >   I know what this is for, but I'm not a company, I have only one
> > account. Is it possible to get the same behavior as in Gnucash 1.4 ? This
> > spurious account is not very nice...
>
> I don't think you know what this is for -- in GnuCash, expenses
> are also represented with accounts. So you could have an expense
> account for groceries, one for your telephone bill, one for gasoline,
> etc. If you don't want to bother with that, then create a
> 'miscellaneous' expense account and make all transfers to
> that. But you're really missing the whole point of this
> program -- tracking where your money goes.

  I've played around with this yesterday. In fact I'm OK with this system 
now, but there are still some points bothering me.
  First, I deleted my old account created with Gnucash 1.4 and started a new 
one with the wizard. It created many accounts (for all kinds to expenses and 
credits). My only problem : where is MY account, the one that really exists ? 
Most terms are not translated, and I'm not familiar with this vocabular in 
English. For example, I wanted to edit my account to enter its number, I did 
not know which one to edit.
  So I deleted all this and created a new account without the wizard (just 
clicked "New account" in the main window). The dialog box to create the 
account was much simpler this time, but I ended up with only two accounts 
(mine and the balancing account). No "category account".
  Is it possible to create a real account and all the "category" accounts at 
the same time ?
  Thank you for the answer,

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Thibaut Cousin
email : cousin@in2p3.fr
web   : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr
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