Re[2]: Year end options

[cageda at bbox.fr]

Sounds cool. Tks
Alain
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Envoyé depuis l'application myMail pour Android mercredi, 15 mars 2017, 02:27PM +01:00 de John Ralls  jralls at ceridwen.us :

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>> On Mar 15, 2017, at 1:52 AM, Alain Dormoy < cageda at bbox.fr > wrote:
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>> In fact, the main reason is to be able de delete old accounts that will never be used again, form the CoA. 
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>> For instance, everytime I take a trip I open *new* accounts, eg London:Flight, London:Hotels, London:Car rental, London:Restaurant etc...
>> As I have been doing this for 8 years, when I want to enter a transaction in one of those, I have to scroll down dozens and dozens of accounts before finding the relevant one. 
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>> Even though I have "closed my books" at the end of each year, and the balance of those account is zero, I fear if I delete them from the CoA, something will get unbalanced somewhere. Maybe I'm wrong or am I?
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>It depends. If you were to delete all of the splits from those accounts then all of the transactions which included the splits would become unbalanced. The correct way is to create a new Expenses:Old Trips (name doesn't matter, of course) and assign the splits to that account when you delete the others. Afterwards you could mark Expense:Old Trips hidden and placeholder so that it's not in the account selectors or CoA. Next year when you want to flush this year's trip accounts you unmark it as a placeholder, delete the accounts, and re-mark it.
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>Regards,
>John Ralls
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