[GNC] Recommendation on how to close a GnuCash Account

[Tommy Trussell]

Over the years I have "hidden" closed bank accounts, which has several
advantages (it doesn't clutter the account tree and there's no way to
accidentally choose them). If I recall correctly, search results continue
to show transactions in "hidden" accounts as long as the other search
criteria fit; but now I cannot recall whether you can select hidden
accounts when making account selections in reports.

What I've done more recently is create a special account heading, something
like Assets:Non-Current Assets or Assets:zClosed Accounts then "re-parent"
the closed account to the new heading AND change the account name to
include "CLOSED." This has the advantage of having the accounts at the
ready and not having to remember to display hidden accounts in
circumstances where you might want to scroll through the transactions in
them for some reason.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 10:33 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alan,
>
> A very simple method that I use is to append the word - Closed to the
> account name.  If you want, you could also change the account to read only.
>
> David Carlson
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 10:17 AM Alan A Holmes <gnucash at alanaholmes.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm currently closing a couple of Savings accounts and moving them to
> other
> > banks to get a better rate on interest.
> >
> >
> >
> > In GnuCash I've created new accounts in Assets and transferred things
> > across
> > from the old accounts to the new accounts. That's no problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'd now like to "mark" the GnuCash" accounts as being closed so that I
> > don't
> > accidentally use them again in the future. Any recommendations or
> > suggestions on the best way to do this please?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Alan A Holmes
> >
> >
> >
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