[GNC] How to remove unused accounts

[Lorrie Laskey]

Hi David,

I figured out that I needed to add a final transaction to close out some
unused accounts. However, I have a few that I don't know how to close out.

For example, I started an "Investments" account to monitor my 401K
contributions and abandoned it. It now has a total of $12,900, which is
being included in the reports. How do I close this account while keeping
the transactions?



On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 7:14 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Lorrie,
>
> There are some other choices.
>
> If you want some accounts that you do not use to be omitted from some
> reports use the Accounts selection for those reports to only select the
> accounts you want.
>
> If there are old accounts that are essentially just missing the last
> transaction to close them out, just add a transaction to transfer the
> balance to equity.  Give it an appropriate date in the past.
>
>
> David C
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:04 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, January 25, 2019 9:51 am, Lorrie Laskey wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have a few old, unused accounts with dollars amounts that are not
>> > accurate that are showing up when doing reports, skewing the data.
>> >
>> > How do I delete the accounts but not the transactions?
>>
>> When you delete an account, GnuCash will ask you what to do with all the
>> transactions in the account.  Your choices are basically:
>>
>>   * move them into another account, or
>>   * move them into Orphan-XXX (where XXX is the currency)
>>
>> There is no way to "mass delete" a bunch of transactions.
>>
>> > Credit card payments were made from my checking account, so deleting the
>> > transactions would remove them from the checking account.
>>
>> Let me ask you a different question here..  Credit card payments were made
>> from your checking account to the CC account -- so if THOSE transactions
>> were correct, then... where is the problem?  Is the problem that you did
>> not account for your actual CC charges?
>>
>> What balances are "off"?
>>
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>> -derek
>>
>> --
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