ORPHAN vs. IMBALANCE

[Adam Funk]

On 2015-02-09, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:

> 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.

I see what you mean.  On the rare occasions that I add new accounts
like that, I usually have a pretty good idea of where I want them to
go.