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

[Peter West]

That’s a global setting though.

Peter
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> On 2 Jun 2021, at 12:52 pm, D. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Of course, you can suppress zero balance accounts in the View menu, if that's your preference...
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tue Jun 01 18:46:57 EDT 2021
> To: John Morris <johnjeff at editide.us>, Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] WHY ARE THERE "IMBALANCE ENTRIES" AT ALL ?? JUST CURIOUS
> 
> John,
> 
> I agree. There is a case for not displaying the Imbalance accounts in the CoA
> tab if there are no entries to them, i.e. they are zero balance. This is an
> option in reports but not in the account tab. They can of course be left in the
> CoA and hidden in the Account tab by editing the account and setting the hidden
> flag but they then remain hidden even when new entries to them are created.
> 
> I would go further and hide them totally if the balance in them was zero and
> change either the background or the font color to a bright red or even flashing
> red( that would clearly need to be optional) to  highlight them when they are
> present with a non-zero balance. 
> 
> Their usefulness to indicate incorrect entries would be enhanced if they are
> hidden when the balance is zero as their presence whether highlighted or not
> indicates an error.  Similarly with the orphan transactions created when an
> account with existing transactions to it has been deleted without moving the
> transactions to another account.
> 
> I would take a look at it but I am currently heavily involved in a physics
> project programming exercise at the moment. The change in behaviour from the
> previous version probably needs to be tracked down and, where possible fixed
> first, before adding any further enhancements to minimize conflicting changes.
> 
> David Cousens
> 
> On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 18:10 -0400, John Morris wrote:
>>> Actually you are given the opportunity to fix it during entry. When the
>>> Imbalance account appears in a transaction in the account column, all you
>>> have to do is click on it in the Account column and assign the correct
>>> account from the drop down list, before closing (pressing Enter) the
>>> transaction.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, by then the damage is already done. The Imbalance account has
>> been created and I must go and delete it yet again. I don’t like extra
>> accounts cluttering up my carefully designed CoA.
>> 
>> Best,
>> John
>> 
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