Read-only transactions; imbalances

[FireFly]

--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Paul A. <abrahams at acm.org> wrote:
> I guess my earlier question got lost in the rest of the
> discussion.  Under
> what circumstances does GnuCash create read-only
> transactions, and why?
> 

No clue on that one, never seen it either.

> Perhaps I'm missing something pretty basic, but it seems to
> me that deleting
> a transaction is logically equivalent to adding a zeroing
> transaction, and
> adding a transaction never creates an imbalance if the
> transaction is
> properly formed (weird multi-currency issues aside). 
> If deleting an account
> means deleting all transactions in that account, then how
> can that create an
> imbalance?

Because deleting an account doesn't delete all transactions, it only deletes removes the part of the transaction that was in that account.

Taking a "relatively" simple example, say you transferred $1000 from one account to another, but then deleted the account that you transferred the money from, it wouldn't just disappear from the other account, that money is in the other account, you just deleted the source (so now the money is, at least if I recall default GnuCash behaviour) going to come from the imbalance account, because it's still got to make it into that account.

- James Duerr

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