[GNC] Unusual transactions

[R Losey]

To the original poster: Are you sure there is only one split... if you go
to the Imbalance account, select one of the entries, and press Show Splits,
you get nothing?

To others: I have accidentally created Imbalance entries when because of
hitting the wrong key, an Imbalance entry is created. I then catch it, fix
the error and zero the Imbalance amount, but forget to delete it from the
split.


On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Fred if the Imbalance account amount of the split is non zero then
> there must be at least one other account involved. GnuCash's enforcing
> of the sum of debits = sum of credits for a transaction is absolute and
> it is relatively rare that anyone makes changes the core code in this
> area.  If you choose View->Transaction Journal mode from the menu then
> you will see the other split where it exists if the Imbalance amount is
> zero and youare viewing it from the Imbalance account register
>
> On Thu, 2025-12-11 at 08:38 +1300, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> > In the Imbalance-USD account, I have four transactions.
> > Each of them only has one split: Imbalance-USD
> >
> > So much for each transaction has to have at least two sides.
> >
> > They are on different dates and have different Descriptions,
> > so are not two pairs.
> > PrtSc key does nothing in this Fedora Linux,
> > so I cannot show it to this list.
> >
> > I have looked at this file in both GnuCash 5.12 and 5.13
> > and both show the same thing.
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