Editing accounts

linas@linas.org linas@linas.org
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:44:35 -0600 (CST)


It's been rumoured that ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca said:
> 
> When a person is first learning GnuCash, and setting up
> non-trivial accounts, it sure would be nice if it was
> easier to edit things.  I had one account set up as an
> asset I think, and then changed it to a bank account
> (or vice versa).  All the entries changed over, but
> they were put in what I thought was the wrong field.

what wrong field?  changing the type of the account from
asset to bank should not change anything.

(changing from income to asset or expense to debit 
will change the sign of the entries from positive to negative,
but this is as it should be).

--linas