Unbalanced balance sheet

[Derek Atkins]

Mark Eackloff <meackloff at cox.net> writes:

> This happened to me recently.  I determined that it was caused by an
> unbalanced entry.  Yes, that's right.  Apparently it is possible to
> enter only one side of a transaction.  I'm not sure if that's a
> "feature" or a bug.

The only way I know of to enter unbalanced transactions is via the OFX
Import process.  I (still) consider that a bug, but it has not (yet)
been fixed.  :(

However, that's not the only way to cause a balance-sheet imbalance.
Another way is not accounting for capital gains/losses when you sell a
commodity other than your report-currency.  Gnucash 1.8 does not
properly account for the change-in-value of commodities, which means
your balance sheet will be out of balance.

-derek

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