Can't delete Imbalance account

[Dave H]

I also delete these any time they pop up - indicates I've stuffed something
up when they suddenly show up - not obsessional at all though I do have a
tidy mind :-)

Cheers Dave H.

On 17 December 2015 at 16:39, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On 17 Dec 2015, at 02:02, Edward Doolittle <edward.doolittle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > I delete my Imbalance and Orphan accounts all the time. They just get
> > re-created the next time they're needed. I take the presence of an
> > Imbalance or Orphan account as a sign that some transaction needs further
> > attention. I fix the transaction then delete the Imbalance or Orphan
> > account.
> >
> > Edward
> >
>
> I’ve never deleted these accounts, and thought it very odd (perhaps
> slightly obsessional?) to do so when Edward posted this message. It hadn’t
> even occurred to me that it would be possible to delete them.
>
> Up to now, I have been looking out for non-zero values in Imbalance or
> Orphan as flags for errors. Now that I think more deeply about it, I
> realise that it’s possible to have a pair of errors with equal and opposite
> values, which would result in the balance of one of these accounts being
> zero.
>
> Perhaps I should include the periodic inspection of Imbalance and Orphan
> in my routine, and their deletion if they contain no entries.
>
> Michael
>
>
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