Closing an account

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "James" == James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> writes:

    James> On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 08:21 , Neil Jerram wrote:
    >>>>>>> "James" == James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> writes:
    >> 
    James> Let's say I close an old savings account or something and
    >> I want
    James> to remove the account from GNUCash.  What is the best way to
    James> deal with this?
    >> 
    James> It seems to me there should be a checkbox for each
    >> account which
    James> causes to no longer be displayed in the account tree, but
    >> nothing
    James> like this seems to exist.
    >> 
    >> You need to think more clearly about what you mean.  What do you want
    >> to happen to old transactions involving this account?

    James> Obviously, the transactions should remain, just having the
    James> account in front of me when it is useless is kind of
    James> useless, but there should be some way to drag it up so I
    James> can review history, too.

OK, sorry for misunderstanding - I was misled by you saying that you
wanted to "remove the account from GNUCash".

    James> As someone sent me privately, he created a new top-level
    James> called CLOSED which is also what I did.  I certainly find
    James> this option sufficient, however, I think it is messy.

Yes, it is a bit, isn't it?  I guess what you really want is a "hide"
option.

Regards,
        Neil