Hidden Accounts

[Derek Atkins]

"Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:

>> Just out of curiosity, what's the purpose of hiding an account?  Is 
>> it just to clear your account view of any deprecated expense or 
>> liability accounts, or.. ?
>
> Generally they are historical income and expense accounts that are no
> longer used, but which still contain a transaction split (from closing
> the books at the year end).  I don't want to delete the accounts for that
> reason, but neither do I want them cluttering up my currently-used chart
> of accounts.  The simple thing is simply make them invisible - but then
> you don't want 'em appearing in the drop-down, 'cos it defeats the object
> of hiding 'em!

I use it for asset/liability accounts I no longer have..  I dont want to
delete the accounts because there are still historical transactions into
them, even if the current (and future) value is 0.

> Colin

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-derek

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