Imbalances

[Colin Law]

On 22 February 2011 20:34, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Tue, 2/22/11, falou zaynoun <fzaynoun at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: falou zaynoun <fzaynoun at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Imbalances
>> To: "Gnucash" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 11:23 AM
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>> i am getting imbalances and actually i am not able to
>> delete them. imbalances means something is wrong for me.
>> What to do to fix this and be able to delete imbalances ?
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> Gnucash is double entry accounting, so it requires (according to double-entry accounting rules) a balancing entry in every transaction.
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> SO, if your transaction doesn't balance, Gnucash provides the reminder by creating a balancing entry in Imbalances.
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> If you want to get rid of imbalance entries, balance your transaction by designating a different (real) account for the imbalance amount.

To find which transaction is not balanced, select it in the imbalance
account and click on the Split button.  This will then show the other
splits in the transaction.

Colin