Construction loan and cash-flow report

[Dwight Tovey]

Dale Alspach said:
> I am not where I can check this in gnucash, but there should be no net
> cash flow except the interest expense. The net cash flow from the loan
> should be zero since the gain in the house asset is offset by the liabilty.

Right.  That's what I was expecting.  What I get though for this month is
   total "Money In":  $77,030.02
  total "Money Out":   $7,807.23
         difference:  $69,222.79

This month's draw was $69,727.76, which pretty much accounts for all of
the difference.  It looks to me like the transfer to the "House" asset
account is not being included in the report.

> I would check the account types

  Construction Loan:  Account type = Liability
              House:  Account type = Asset

> and whether you have somehow excluded some accounts from the cash flow
> report.

Ok, now this gets weird.  I originally just used the default Cash Flow
report, only changing the start date (Start of this month).  That gave me
the values above.  I then went into the Options->Accounts view and saw
that the "House" account was selected, but the "Construction Loan" account
was not.  In the report, the Loan shows up (in the Money In section), but
the House doesn't.  If I select the Construction Loan, it disappears from
the report.  If I then de-select "House", it shows up in the report
(giving me a negative cash-flow of -$70,232.73).  On de-selecting the Loan
again, the "House" disappears from the report, the loan does not
re-appear, and I get the net cash-flow that I would expect.

Am I missing something here?  I would have expected that selecting or
de-selecting an individual account would determine only if that account
was included in the report.  I would not expect it to determine if some
other account was included or not.

Any thoughts?

    /dwight
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