[GNC] Deposit\Withdraw on one account, Increase\Decrease on others. Why?

[Kevin Reid]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 7:25 AM ddhahn <ddhahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess my question then is how does gnucash know an account is a bank
> account vs a generic asset account? The accounts I'm referring to are indeed
> bank accounts so I'd want to have that reflected in gnucash, if possible. I
> don't recall specifying that one of them is a bank account and the rest are
> generic asset accounts..

If you open the "Edit Account" view (where the name, description,
parent account, and so on are also entered) you will see a choice of
“Account Type”.

Note that the available account types are also constrained by the
parent account — for example, you cannot make an Expense account that
is a child account of an Asset placeholder account.