Net worth linechart for personal finance

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 11, 2015, at 5:30 AM, Bertrand Marc <beberking at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Gnucash users,
> 
> I am using Gnucash for my personal accounting, and I would like to
> display a linechart of my assets and liabilities. Unfortunately, the net
> worth linechart does not display a useful information (for me), as it
> display "Assets-Equity" as assets. This certainly makes sense for
> business accounting, but for my personal finance I don't see the point
> of substracting Equity, as it is only my opening balances. I would find
> it much more useful to display the total assets, the total liabilities
> and the net assets (as it is calculated at the bottom of the account page).
> 
> Is there a way to display the net assets on a line chart ?

You can display whatever accounts you want on the net-worth line chart, just open Report Options, switch to the Accounts tab, and select the desired accounts. That said, it doesn't appear to actually include equity in the chart in spite of having it selected on the accounts tab by default.

Regards,
John Ralls