[GNC] Mystery per-security Opening Balances accounts appearing

Geoff cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 20:20:07 EDT 2021


 > (1) Has anyone else seen this?

Yes, you are not going crazy, I have had a similar problem on a few 
occasions myself in the past month, however I can't put my finger on the 
reason why or reproduce it.

GnuCash 4.4 on Windows 10.


 > (2) What gives?

No idea, I just deleted the accounts.  It's a minor nuisance.


Regards

Geoff
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On 18/03/2021 4:00 am, peterb 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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