Error: This GL Account is a Fund Balance Account, Normally you should not Create Entries when Posting Journal Entries to a Fund Balance Account

When posting journal entries directly to a fund balance (Q) account, the error will occur.

Answer:

This error typically occurs when journal entries are made directly to a fund balance account (Q account).
 
NOTE: It is not recommended to post directly to Q accounts as reports and other utilities in FIMS do not take into account any activity posted to them.

What we do recommend is when you are moving money between fund balances within the same fund would be doing a journal entry using the transfer accounts.
 
Please see the following for more information on moving money between Q accounts (fund balance accounts):
 
How do I move amounts between fund balances within the same fund?
 
If you want to post to the fund balance accounts directly, against recommendations, then there is a setting that will allow you to do so. Again, we do not recommend this but want to provide the steps in case there is a valid reason to do so, again though, you would not normally do this:
 
 Go to Tools > System Utilities > System options.
 Select Section: GL
 Select Option: Warning_for_Posting_To_Fund_Balance_Account
 Select Value: Yes.
 Changing this will mean the user will get a warning instead of an error and it will allow the user to post to the balance accounts. We recommend that the user change the setting back to No after posting is done.