How to handle closed accounts

[David T.]

IIRC, the accounts selection box in the report options includes hidden accounts, so your reports can include them as well. They don't mysteriously disappear.

One point about the hidden accounts that is quirky is that they still show up in the account drop down list in transactions, even if they are hidden. However, they WON'T show up if you also set the account to be a placeholder account. I actually recommend doing this on closed accounts anyway; setting an account as a placeholder write protects it, so that you don't accidentally post to that account. All the transactions remain; you just can't change anything without first unsetting the Placeholder box.

David

--- On Fri, 4/10/09, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
> Subject: Re: How to handle closed accounts
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 9:22 AM
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:25:04AM -0400, Derek Atkins
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Quoting Arla <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com>:
> > 
> > >
> > >Using GNUCash, but with rolling CD's (and
> interest rates changing with
> > >different banks every other day) I need to be able
> to close accounts, is
> > >that possible?
> > >
> > >Within Microsoft Money once I hit 0 balance I was
> able to "close" the
> > >account, and not have it show up on the account
> list, unless I specifically
> > >looked for closed accounts.
> > >
> > >I guess the alternative would be to create a
> closed accounts high level
> > >account and then just change the account position
> of the closed account to
> > >under the closed accounts?
> > 
> > Sure!
> > 
> > Edit the account and mark it as hidden.
> 
> So if you ask for a report for, say, two years ago, the
> account will be 
> mysteriously absent?
> 
> -- hendrik
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