Closing accounts.

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-03-28, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> 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?

Edit the account (from the accounts tree) and set the "Hidden" and
"Placeholder" flags.

AIUI, "Hidden" hides it in the accounts tree view (unless you change
the filter to "Show hidden accounts"), and "Placeholder" makes the
account read-only (so it doesn't appear in the pull-down list when
entering transactions).