Copying transactions from an account to the general ledger

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 2/6/2018 12:15 PM, Mike Donovan wrote:
> Having recorded many transactions to the cash account, I would like to copy these to the GL (which has no transactions currently) and then use the GL for recording all future transactions. Can this be done? Thanks.
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Review the intro to double entry bookkeeping.

a) The cash account IS a ledger account.
b) Each transaction you entered (entering from the cash account) had 
ANOTHER (at least one other) account associated with it, the other side 
of the transactions. If you did not specify that other account, gnucash 
used the account "Imbalance" as a (temporary) default account. You need 
to FIX each of these (change to the correct account)
c) Gnucash only has a ledger. The journal is virtual (you can run a 
report that will show it to you).

Michael D Novack