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## add and balance assignments
When `add` runs, all balance assignments have already been processed and converted to balance assertions.
So balance assignments will not be recalculated during a `hledger add` session.
You can't add a new balance assignment using `add`.
Also, existing balance assignments will not be recalculated during a `hledger add` session.
(Because by the time `add` runs, they have been converted to explicit amounts plus balance assertions.)
This means that if you try to `add` a new posting which is dated earlier than an existing balance assignment
(now a balance assertion), that posting will break the assertion and be rejected.
To allow it, you could disable assertions temporarily with `hledger add -I`.
This means that if you try to `add` a new posting which is dated earlier than an existing balance assignment,
it will be rejected (because it would break the corresponding assertion).
Unless you disable assertions temporarily with `hledger add -I`.
Also, you can't add a new balance assignment using `add`.