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

D sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 1 12:12:17 EDT 2021


Two reasons:
1- the dev team tries to minimize stored settings, and
2- no one has written the code. 

On Jun 1, 2021, 11:56, at 11:56, s310310 at gmail.com wrote:
>hi,
>why not make it configurable (either nag or create a dummy
>account/entry)
>as a settings option?
>
>Shay
>
>On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 5:30 PM <menace at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> David, thank you for taking the time to fill me in the thought
>process.
>> Laura
>>
>> ----- Original message -----
>> 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
>>
>>
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