[GNC] Change account type by editing XML?

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 4/29/20 11:25 AM, david whiting wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I first set up my accounts (for a local club) I knew very little
> about accounting and misinterpreted some information I was given by an
> accountant and ended up creating some sub-accounts in Accounts Receivable.
> I now know that was not the correct thing to do, and I should have created
> these accounts as straight-forward asset accounts.
>
> Using gnucash I cannot change the account type for these accounts. When I
> use ctrl+e on these accounts I only see account type A/Receivable so I
> cannot change them through the GUI.

When I've had problems changing the account type on an account, I found
that changing the parent first opens up the additional account types to
be used.

Don't know if that will work for A/R (as I don't utilize them).

>
> I've compared the XML structure of one of these accounts with another
> simple asset account and they are the same except for the <act:type>, i.e.:
>
> <act:type>RECEIVABLE</act:type>
>
> versus
>
> <act:type>ASSET</act:type>
>
> I've tried editing this (on a copy) and simply changing RECEIVABLE to ASSET
> seems to work when I re-open the file. Once this is done I used gnucash to
> move the account to the correct place in the accounts hierarchy and all
> seemed well.
>
> Before I do this to all instances in my working file are there any
> potential adverse consequences that doing this could cause that I am
> not aware of?
>
> Thanks.
>
> David


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