Hi all,
I'm a pretty new user to gnucash and am getting settled in. I've searched
the list for the answer to this. I found similar questions but nothing that
lead me to an answer.
I've noticed that one of my asset accounts has deposit\withdraw columns
while my other asset accounts have increase\
Deposit/Withdraw are used for bank accounts. Generic asset accounts use
Increase/Decrease. There might be other special accounts besides bank accounts
with their own context labels, but I don’t know because I use formal labels.
It doesn’t make much sense to ‘deposit’ into, or ‘withdraw’ from, an
Adrien Monteleone-2 wrote
> Deposit/Withdraw are used for bank accounts. Generic asset accounts use
> Increase/Decrease. There might be other special accounts besides bank
> accounts with their own context labels, but I don’t know because I use
> formal labels.
>
> It doesn’t make much sense to ‘d
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 7:25 AM ddhahn wrote:
> I guess my question then is how does gnucash know an account is a bank
> account vs a generic asset account? The accounts I'm referring to are indeed
> bank accounts so I'd want to have that reflected in gnucash, if possible. I
> don't recall specify
Oh wow. It was right in front of me the whole time! I guess my brain assumed
that since it was next to the chart of accounts that it had something to do
with that.
Thank you!
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Also, if you started with the wizard which creates some basic accounts for you,
some of those would have been special types.
Another example would be credit card accounts. You can create them as generic
liability accounts but if you make them type ‘credit card’ there are special
labels for thos