Closing accounts.

[Daniel Carrera]

Brilliant. Thanks! This is perfect. I can't believe I didn't notice that.

Cheers,
Daniel.

Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Try "Edit Account", check the "hidden" option and make sure that 
> "View->Filter by...->Other->Show hidden accounts" is unchecked.
> 
> Does that work for you?
> 
> Regards,
> Bastiaan.
> 
> 
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As time goes by I close old bank accounts and open new ones. These 
>> bank accounts remain in GnuCash. I don't want to lose the history 
>> associated with those accounts, but I also don't want them showing up 
>> on my account list since they don't exist anymore. In a similar way, 
>> you could have an expense account (e.g. an insurance) which you'd want 
>> to close (cancel the insurance). There's a personal loan as well, 
>> which was settled last November, but it still shows up in my Gnucash.
>>
>> These accounts end up polluting my account list. All in all I have 4-5 
>> accounts that I would like to hide or close. In the coming years more 
>> accounts will be closed.
>>
>> Is there a way to close or hide some accounts in GnuCash?
>>
>> I could just delete them and dump everything in "Equity", but that 
>> would destroy the history. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
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