Issues with an Opening Balance in GnuCash

[Liz]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:42:08 -0700
"John R. Sowden" <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:

> gc should not allow an account to be deleted if it is referenced in
> any transactions.  Re: these 2 accounts, my concern is not that the
> amounts are put there, it's that they are put there without the
> user's knowledge in order to balance the transaction.  A solution
> might be a warning to the user that the transaction is out of balance
> and can only be closed by placing the difference in the Imbalance
> Account.  That way the user is clearly advised and will probably
> choose to fix it now rather than to try to figure it out later.

One good feature about allowing such an account to be deleted is it can
be used to mass transfer transactions to another account.
Where one sees a bug, another sees a feature.

Liz