[GNC] New Imbalance-XXX Behavior

[D.]

Michael, 

I'm not sure what behavior you think I am seeing? I do think you're missing my point, which is that prior to 4.5, automatically-generated entries for Imbalance-USD would be placed in my existing Imbalance-USD account, which is located under Special Accounts. That is,  "Special Accounts: Imbalance-USD". It doesn't do that any more, and instead insists that all such entries be made only into a top level account.

I'm not interested in having multiple Imbalance-USD accounts littering my CoA (let alone any additional top level Imbalance-XXX accounts for any other currencies my books might track); I am looking for Gnucash to use the Imbalance accounts that already exist. 

David


-------- Original Message --------
From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
Sent: Mon May 31 17:36:23 EDT 2021
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] New Imbalance-XXX Behavior

On 5/31/2021 1:08 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:


> Please re-read my email. In it you will see that I am NOT/NOT asking 
> about how to handle entries that are automatically added to 
> Imbalance-USD. I am fully aware of Gnucash behaviors in regard to the 
> creation of entries into Imbalance-USD, and I have a long-established 
> workflow in place for handling such created entries.
>
>
> What I was noting is a CHANGE IN BEHAVIOR from earlier versions of 
> Gnucash. In earlier versions, entries to Imbalance-USD would be added 
> to the EXISTING Imbalance-USD account, regardless of its placement in 
> the Chart of Accounts. In my books, I moved Imbalance-USD to be a 
> child account of a new Top Level account that I created called 
> "Special Accounts." 


David, for a very good reason, I suspect you were not seeing the 
behavior you thought you were seeing. An account is NOT defined by its 
name but by its name within the context of its position in the tree (the 
CoA). Does you CoA not have ANY account names that are duplicated except 
for their position in the tree? For example, suppose among your expenses 
you were tracking the costs associated with automobiles, with one of 
these being fuel.

Expenses

     Automobile expenses

            Auto 1

                   fuel

            Auto 2

                   fuel

Now those two accounts for fuel have the same name but they are NOT the 
same account. You would not expect to simply specify "fuel" as the 
account affected by a transaction but also which one you meant.

But you are saying you had this working for the name "Imbalance". That 
you moved this to a different place in the tree but gnucash still 
treated it as the same account as the normal (special account) Imbalance.

Michael D Novack





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