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

[Liz Dodd]

On Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:23:07 -0400
"D. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> 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. 

It is a problem when you are not aware of how to enter transactions,
and press the Enter key, probably by habit. 
Nevertheless I can still find myself with Imbalance entries although I
have been using Gnucash a long time.

Liz