[GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS

[menace at fastmail.fm]

David, thank you for taking the time to fill me in the thought process.  Laura

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From: "D." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com <mailto:sunfish62%40yahoo.com>>
To: menace at fastmail.fm <mailto:menace%40fastmail.fm>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user%40gnucash.org>>
Subject: Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS
Date: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 9:23 AM

Laura,

Welcome to gnucash.

The question about imbalance entries goes back a long ways in GnuCash, and you can find discussions about it in the lists over the years.

Essentially, the debate boils down to this: is it better to allow a user to enter an imbalanced transaction and automatically create the balancing entry in a dummy account (Imbalance-XXX generically speaking), or should the program nag the user to balance the transaction every time? Gnucash choose the former many years ago, and has stuck with that model since.

David