[GNC] Setting up a new accounting scheme in GnuCash

[Adrien Monteleone]

There are a few other limitations.

The Business Features restrict certain account selections for various functions based on type. (what you can post line items to, what you can post entire bills/invoices to, what accounts are available to make payments from, etc.)

Also, when deleting an account, GnuCash will not offer to allow you to move the transactions in that account to another account of certain types. (you can’t move asset transactions to a liability account for example) In that case, you would first have to change the type of the account you want to delete to match the destination, then perform the delete. (and move)


Regards,
Adrien 

> On Aug 8, 2019, at 8:08 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From my understanding, the account-type is mainly used in reports.
> Otherwise you're right, you can tweak any account-type at leisure within
> limits eg can't change currency-type account to stock-type account;
> subaccounts of Asset/Liability/Income/Expense are limited according to the
> parent-type.
> 
> e.g. Net worth reports will calculate asset balance less liability balance.
> 
> C
> 
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 13:02, Frank ter Braak <frankterbraak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>