Minimizing Unused Accounts

[Phil Longstaff]

The problem is that marking an account as hidden doesn't hide it completely.  It is still available to reports, for example (there is a bug in bugzilla about that, and I plan to fix it soon because it bothers me.).

Phil



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From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: Nick Hasser <nick.hasser at gmail.com>
Cc: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org >> GnuCash User Mailing List" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:53:31 AM
Subject: Re: Minimizing Unused Accounts

Nick Hasser <nick.hasser at gmail.com> writes:

> I have created a "Closed Accounts" asset. When I close an account, I
> edit it's properties and set the parent account to Closed Accounts. This
> keeps it out of view (I have Closed Accounts minimized in the account
> view), but still keeps all the history and reconciliation information
> accurate.

Another option is to just mark the Account as Hidden.

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-derek

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