[GNC] Have I screwed up with my Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

I have some issue with some non-GBP transactions showing as outstanding if
I look at

Business -> Reports -> Payable Aging.
Business -> Reports -> Receivable Ageing.

An amount of money appears to be payable on some transactions, despite I
believe they are all paid.

I have the following structure

Assets :Accounts Receivable
Assets :Accounts Receivable:Accounts Receivable (USD)
Assets :Accounts Receivable:Accounts Receivable (EUR)

Assets :Accounts Receivable is *not* a placeholder account, but a GBP
account. This means there are non-GBP accounts under a GBP account. Is that
a bad idea?

I initially had
Assets :Accounts Receivable (placeholder)
Assets :Accounts Receivable:Accounts Receivable (GBP)
Assets :Accounts Receivable:Accounts Receivable (USD)
Assets :Accounts Receivable:Accounts Receivable (EUR)

but got fed up having to select Assets :Accounts Receivable:Accounts
Receivable (GBP) for 99% of the transactions. So now Assets :Accounts
Receivable is a GBP account, and is selected by default. I'm wondering if
my layout is fundamentally flawed, having a non-GBP account as a
sub-account of a GBP account.

I have the same issues on Liabilities: Accounts Payable. In that case there
are USD and HKD accounts under a GBP account.

I have the attached transaction showing as owing $0.98 to Porkbun.com. The
number 0.98 happens to be the difference between what this cost in USD
($6.90) and what it cost in pounds (£5.92).

 6.90-5.92=0.98.

So I'm starting to wonder if my accounts structure is wrong, and I should
make Assets :Accounts Receivable and Liabilities: Accounts Payable into
placeholder accounts,

If I have made a fundamental error, it would be good in GnuCash could spot
these, and non allow sub-accounts like this. If I have not made an error,
then I need to resolve why these transactions are appearing to have money
outstanding, despite there is not.

Of course, the next problem is, if I should indeed have messed up, whether
it's possible to recover. The GBP side of these has been reconciled, so
deleting the transactions is probably not a good idea. Maybe setting up new
accounts is possible, and changing the accounts things are debited or
credited to.
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