cannot create Income or Expence account

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting chishiki <chishiki at gmail.com>:

[snip]
> My problem is: I am not able to create income or expense accounts. There are
> only 9 available account types: Bank, Cash, Asset, Credit Card, Liability,
> Stock, Mutual Fund, A/Receivable, and A/Payable. There should be 13,
> correct? (
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/accts_types1.html per
> documentation ).
>
> Am I missing something obvious? I need both income and expense accounts...
> don't I?

You're trying to create a sub-account of an existing Asset or Liability
account.

Try making a new top-level account.

Or, better yet, Go File -> New -> New File and create a standard
hierarchy that has all the basic accounts created for you.

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-derek

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