Default account counterpart

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Wed Feb 18 16:43:28 EST 2009


On 2009-02-18, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Quoting Ulrike Fischer <news2 at nililand.de>:

>> when I enter an incomplete transaction, gnucash automatically use
>> the account "Ausgleichkonto-EUR" (in the german version) as the
>> second account.
>>
>> Where is this default account set? Can I change the name somehow? Or
>> tell gnucash to use another as default account? (I tried to rename
>> the account, but gnucash simply recreated it).
>
> It's hardcoded.  "Imbalance-<currency>" is hardcoded and you cannot
> change it.  If you don't like this then just assign the Split properly
> before you enter the transaction and then this wont get created.

(I know I've complained about this before, but...)

Is there any chance of adding an option to block this?  I would really
like GnuCash to force me to balance the transaction before "finishing"
it; I do not *ever* want it to create an account without asking for
confirmation.



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