undo close books?

[Derek Atkins]

Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> writes:

> One thing that you CAN do to "lock" changes to an account in GnuCash is to
> BALANCE the account. Then (unless you have chosen to ignore the warnings,

And by "BALANCE" you mean "Reconcile", right?

> which you can always reset) GnuCash will warn you before you make any sort
> of change to the accounts, even to the text of transactions (which wouldn't
> affect the balance).
>
> For example I often balance even my Cash in Wallet account; not so that I
> don't accidentally change old transactions, but so that I can have an
> estimate for the money I have spent but neglected to record. However,
> having all my current asset accounts balanced makes it much less likely I
> will change an old transaction. (Sometimes need to update a description on
> a balanced transaction, so I acknowledge what I'm doing and proceed. I
> never change the transaction amounts on a balanced account because that
> would cause trouble.)

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-derek

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