[GNC] Hidden accounts and balances

[Colin Law]

If they are accounts that no longer have any value (monetarily I mean) but
when you look at the account it says it has a value then your accounts are
in error.  Add a transaction to bring the value to zero.

Colin

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 14:43, Bridgit Griffin <bridgitgriffin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's a nice way to handle joint accounts that are no longer joint yet
> open. Also, for handling very old accounts not reconciled that are closed.
> Plus during the import process from Quicken lots of transactions were
> removed from accounts. For example, anything that says cash or salary. As
> you all know Quicken allows for categories that GNUcash makes into
> accounts. They're not really accounts so what is getting closed? It was a
> category in Quicken.
>
> Why offer hidden when it's not?
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 8:19 AM Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a bug or mis-feature in quicken to me.  I think I'd prefer
>> that my
>> accounts package didn't hide money from me.
>>
>> Seriously, though thinking about it for a second, what financial
>> institution
>> would allow you to close an account you held with them and leave a
>> running
>> balance for the rest of eternity?  (apologies to those planning a meal at
>> the
>> Restaurant at the End of the Universe as featured in Hitchhikers Guide to
>> the
>> Galaxy)
>>
>> If you're hiding an Income / Expense account then surely you don't want
>> to
>> regard that money as no longer earned / spent? It would throw everything
>> out
>> of whack, IMHO.
>>
>> 0.02
>> Maf.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 10 August 2018 14:11:15 BST Bridgit Griffin wrote:
>> > No not all have zero balances. However, Quicken allows the account to be
>> > treated as if that is the case. It seems the hidden function in GNUcash
>> > doesn't function the same way.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 4:30 AM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I would have expected a closed account to have a zero balance.
>> > >
>> > > Colin
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 09:51, Bridgit Griffin <
>> bridgitgriffin at gmail.com>
>> > >
>> > > wrote:
>> > >> I recently imported 20 years of financial data. The issue I'm facing
>> is
>> > >> that marking an account as hidden doesn't remove the balance from the
>> > >> total of the higher level accounts. Such that only active (unhidden)
>> > >> accounts are reflected in totals. Being accustom to Quicken that did
>> > >> have this feature either through a close option or hiding the account
>> > >> removed any of the balances in those accounts from totals. I can't be
>> > >> the first person who has encountered this, but searching didn't
>> produce
>> > >> any relevant results. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
>> > >>
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