[moneydance] Hiding Accounts with Non-Zero Balance

[Edward Reid]

At 10:40 08/05/06 -0500, Fuzzy Fox wrote:
>If you were to do this, you'd be going against Moneydance's purpose,
>which is to track where all your money goes.

Fuzzy Fox,

I think this is a bit extreme. The purpose of Moneydance is to help us -- 
real people -- with our personal finances. Real People carry cash and don't 
track all cash expenditures. Real People try things and decide they don't 
work and change plans, but don't discard everything we've done in the past. 
And Real People may find it useful to know how much we take in cash without 
tracking how we use it.

But yes, if the account balance is no longer meaningful, then just zero it 
out. (I have an "adjustments" category which I use for such things.) Since 
the balance is no longer meaningful, the adjustment shouldn't matter to you.

Penedo,

The final transaction in the "old cc transactions" account should be a 
transfer of the balance to the "new cc transactions" account. That both 
zeroes out the old account (so you can hide it) and establishes the initial 
balance for the new account.

Edward
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