[GNC] Orphan-<currency> and Imbalance-<currency> splits created on stock transaction when closing & reopening GnuCash data file

[Chris Grinton]

Good thought - but the problem still occurs even if the share count and
price are non-0. (The example transaction I've described is a simple
reduction in the cost base of the asset without changing the number of
shares held. But I think that is not directly relevant to the problem and
probably the example I described more complex than it needed to be.)

Chris


On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 at 09:45, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I'm missing something, but if there is a transaction that has a
> cost of 5000, and you have shares with a price of 0, that may be causing it
> to think there is an imbalance, and thus the transactions get added?
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 7:09 AM Chris Grinton <cgrinton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi GnuCashers,
>>
>> I have a strange situation where a transaction is automagically (and
>> unexpectedly) getting splits added to it against the "Orphan-<currency>"
>> and "Imbalance-<currency>" accounts when my GnuCash data file is closed
>> and
>> reopened. I can't work out why these splits are getting added, and would
>> love any insights that people might have on how to stop it from happening.
>>
>> The unexpected behavior here appears to be somehow related to having
>> trading accounts enabled, and a consequence of changing the namespace of a
>> security.
>>
>> Here are steps I do to reproduce this problem:
>>
>> 1. Create a transaction as follows:
>>         Expenses:Realised capital losses     DR 5000
>>         Assets:Stock account                                         CR
>> 5000 (with shares & price = 0)
>>
>> This appears in GnuCash as per the following screenshot:
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> No change occurs to this transaction as long as I keep the GnuCash file
>> open.
>>
>> 2. Edit the UNLISTED:ACME security, and change its namespace. For example,
>> change the namespace from "UNLISTED" to "UNLISTED2".
>>
>> 3. Open a different GnuCash file (or close GnuCash), and then open the
>> original file again. The act of opening the file appears to cause the
>> transaction to be updated with additional splits to read as follows:
>>
>>         Expenses:Realised capital losses     DR 5000
>> *        Orphan-AUD                                      DR 5000*
>>         Assets:Stock account                                         CR
>> 5000 (with shares & price = 0)
>> *        Imbalance-AUD                                                  CR
>> 5000*
>>
>> Here's a screenshot showing this:
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> 4. If I delete the Orphan & Imbalance splits, they continue to reappear
>> every time I reopen the GnuCash file.
>>
>> I have not seen this behavior occurring for securities that have not had a
>> namespace change, but is reliably reproducible for securities that have
>> had
>> a namespace change.
>>
>> I'm using GnuCash 4.8 on Windows with a SQLite data file.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
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