ORPHAN vs. IMBALANCE

[Mike or Penny Novack]

You can create a new account on the fly while entering a split: you type 
what you want (using colon-completion as needed) & GnuCash brings up a 
dialog asking if you want to create Expenses:House:Whatever; if you 
click "yes", it brings up the standard account creation dialog, 
pre-loaded with sensible defaults. This feature is IMHO absolutely 
brilliant. I don't use it often, but it saves me a lot of hassle when I 
do. ______________________________________________

Ah yes, I knew that. But "on the fly" is not how I am comfortable 
changing the chart of accounts. On the fly I might know the name I would 
probably give the (new) account but not necessarily where in the tree, 
and proper/logical tree redesign might involve creating a new parent 
account (placeholder) under which some existing account and this new 
account now go as children  The point is, at least in MY case, I want to 
sit back and think how I should be changing the chart of accounts 
whenever a change is needed. Not a "quick, on the fly" decision.

Michael