Account report error for transactions the last 30 days

[Colin Law]

Hi Tom

Can you provide a screenshot showing what you mean?

Colin

On 12 October 2017 at 20:00, Tom B <tblackley at hushmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using GnuCash for the past few months after importing from
> Quicken. Great application and very pleased with it as a double-entry
> system.  However, just over the past month or so I've noticed a very
> unexpected result. The file has in excess of 15,000 entries and includes
> 2005 to present.  I'm still running Quicken in parallel and all both systems
> are in complete agreement with balances.  Fortunately I'm retired and can
> make the time available.
>
> When performing a search to see how much I've spent with a particular vendor
> (i.e. gas station, grocer) the search results register opens showing all
> entries with the specific vendor and of course zero balance(s) in the search
> register. Now if I select "reports > account report" I would expect the
> report to show zero balances with totals for credits and debits.  This is
> not the case as I see a non-zero balance column in the report although the
> search results register shows zero balance.
>
> To further muddy the waters I have discovered this unexpected balance
> uniformly increasing up until around entries from mid-august and then the
> balance in the "search results account report" to steadily decrease? For
> gasoline or groceries i would expect the balance to uniformly increase with
> each entry. The report shows debits and credits in the correct columns and
> none with negative values.
> So my question(s) are 1. why would there be a account report balance other
> than zero when the search results registers shows zero and 2. why would the
> balance seemingly reverse arithmetically for only the past six weeks or so?
>
> All accounts are in balance (no imbalances shown for any account type) and
> account register reports all provide expected results.  It is only search
> results register acting strange.  By the way, this only occurs for entries
> dated after mid-august.
>
> Also, the OS is LinuxMint 18.2 with GnuCash ver 2.6.12.  Any help would be
> most appreciated.
>
> Tom
>
>
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