Orphan-USD

Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8 at verizon.net
Mon Sep 12 09:54:58 EDT 2011


Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net> writes:
> 

>>  I am still running gnucash-2.2.9-5.el5 because that is what I can find
>> for my distribution.
>>
>> I have both of them in my list of accounts. Both have zero-balance. But
>> since I did not explicitly create them, they must have turned up at one
>> time or another, and I forget which is which. Sometimes I know I get one
>> of them (Imbalance?) when I do a split transaction and enter before I
>> finish all the parts of the split. But whatever the rules, sometimes it
>> uses one and sometimes the other.
> 
> Yes, the Orphan-USD (and Imbalance-USD) accounts will get created
> automatically when needed.  Looking at the code I beleive that
> Orphan-xxx accounts get created when you have an existing Split but it
> has no reference to an Account.  In this case the Split is an Orphaned
> split so gets put into the Orphan account.  The Imbalance account
> happens when you are working on a split-transaction and cause the commit
> scrub function to execute when the transaction is not balanced.  In this
> case it will add a balancing Split to the (created, if necessary)
> Imbalance-xxx account.
> 
> When these accounts appear you should correct the problem and then you
> can delete the Orphan or Imbalance accounts.

I agree. I was not complaining, just describing what happens to me with
my version of GnuCash.

I used to delete those accounts, but now I do not bother -- I just make
sure they are 0, and fix the problem if they are not.
> 
> -derek
> 


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