[GNC] Mystery per-security Opening Balances accounts appearing

peterb peterb at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 13:05:32 EDT 2021


It looks like this issue was also raised (by someone other than me) on the
GnuCash reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GnuCash/comments/m5fgk1/confused_about_opening_balance_still/


On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 1:00 PM peterb <peterb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been using Gnucash for well over a year and a half.  Sometime within
> the past few months, I have seen a number of completely empty Opening
> Balances equity accounts opening themselves for certain securities that I
> own.  They are always denominated in the currency of the security; so for
> example I have one right now:
> [image: Screen Shot 2021-03-17 at 12.58.13 PM.png]
> These accounts have no balance, no transactions in them, and *to the best
> of my knowledge* have never had a transaction in them.
> I have asset accounts for about 75 securities, but only see this for
> around 10 of my securities.  Most of them were acquired after starting to
> use GnuCash, so the top-level Equity:Opening-Balances account would not
> have been involved at all.
>
> (1) Has anyone else seen this?
> (2) What gives?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter
>
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