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

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 6/2/2021 2:27 PM, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
> The discussion about the location of Imbalance-XXX accounts is under a different thread, and I explained there my reasons for my account structure and Gnucash's previous implementation. Suffice to say that I'd rather keep Imbalance-USD around (since it will get created all over again), but put it in the location of MY choosing.

The "location" of an account is, in effect, part of its name, its full 
name. You could have half a dozen accounts with the "name" Imbalance as 
long as each was a different leaf of the tree (location in the CoA). How 
do you propose gnucash to "know" WHICH of these you intend to be used as 
the account to use for imbalance situations?

What you are asking form in effect, is the ability to specify an account 
to be used for the purpose.

I know you are thinking, just look for a leaf with name Imbalance. That 
could work IF gnucash reserved the name, disallowed you creating an 
account with that name. Account names in gnucash do NOT have to be 
unique/distinct.  Is it the case that in your own books you do not have 
accounts with the same "name" but different leaves of the tree so you 
don't see the problem. The developers put Imbalance at the top level of 
the tree precisely because that would be unique (could only be one).

Michael D Novack