The current transaction is not balanced.

[Christian Stimming]

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On Saturday 07 July 2001 05:27, Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
> On 06 Jul 2001 14:45:35 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > In GnuCash, expenses and incomes are also represented with accounts.
> > One could say that your income must "come from somewhere", i.e.,
> > another account which could be called "salary". Also, you could have
> > expense accounts for groceries, another one for your telephone bill,
> > one for gasoline, etc. If you don't want to bother with that, then
> > create a 'miscellaneous' expense and a 'miscellaneous' income account
> > and make all transfers to that. But you're really missing the whole
> > point of this program -- tracking where your money goes.
> >
> > If you don't have any income/expense accounts yet, you can create them
> > as you need them. As you enter transactions, if you need a new account
> > to represent an expense, just type the name you want into the transfer
> > column and hit 'tab'. GnuCash will tell you the account does not exist
> > and ask you if you want to create it (do so). Now the account exists
> > and you can complete the transfer. Initially, you will have to create
> > lots of accounts, but as time goes on you will get an account
> > hierarchy that is useful for you.
>
> Why was the behavior changed in gnucash 1.6?

GnuCash 1.4 was a bit too sloppy with that. However, if we want GnuCash to 
grow mature enough, we had to restrict the usage to the real double-entry 
bookkeeping.

Christian
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