Why are my VAT accounts

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 28, 2015, at 1:23 AM, andy <contact at acorncoopsupport.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> thanks you were correct in your understanding and yes they have migrated from Asset and Liability to Expense in the top level instance.
> 
> I would like to suggest (though don't know how to do it) that this is a bug that is fixed as a lot of my clients use GNUcash and I've spent a long time teaching them about how to use it for VAT. Most of them don't understand bookkeeping and it was a a struggle to get them to here.
> However if the account hierarchy changes on an upgrade that will really throw them. I noticed when preparing the end of year reports and could just remove the VAT from the profit and loss report and add it to the balance sheet, but they won't know how to do that.
> 

Andy,

It’s a bug indeed if that’s what happened. What version did you upgrade from? Do you still have a backup of the of the pre-upgrade file available to check?

Regards,
John Ralls