Finding the maximum balance during a period?

[Adam Funk]

On 2009-06-04, Yawar Amin wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
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>> My aim was to answer a questions like "What was the highest balance in
>> my savings account in 2008?"
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> Short of writing custom Scheme code, or other code to parse and process your
> Gnucash accounting file, you could try an Asset Barchart (Reports > Assets &
> Liabilities > Asset Barchart). Then in the report options, pick only your
> savings account, and set the date range to the start and end of 2008. You
> can also set the step size to a week or even a day to close in on that
> particular date on which you had the highest balance. Finally, go into the
> savings account register and scroll to around that date and get the highest
> balance.
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> I know, this is a bit awkward!

It's an interesting idea.  I'd completely forgotten about the
bar-chart reports.