Unbalanced balance sheet

[Derrick Ashby]

Hello Derek, hello list

Derek Atkins wrote:

>Derrick Ashby <daeroncs at fastmail.fm> writes:
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>>Now he tells me!  I confess that it WAS a typo! I am now checking out 
>>gnucash as per the instructions on the cvs page at gnucash.  I sometimes 
>>think that computers exist merely to make we operators look like 
>>complete fools.  In my case I admit that they don't have to try that 
>>hard... I will let you know how I get on. 
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>Okay.  :)
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Eventually, I got around to installing the cvs code onto my test 
machine, and copying the account file with the unbalanced balance sheet 
as well.

The first thing I noticed was a line in the balance sheet for "Orphan" 
transactions.  These turned out to be transactions that had been 
"balanced" in the original file with a null account.  I have no idea how 
that happened, but once I had fixed those in the original account file 
the balance sheet was still unbalanced.  When I removed the share 
"split" from the copied account file in the cvs gnucash I did get a 
balanced balance sheet.

My conclusions are that:

 (1) if you have a balance problem, one useful thing to do is install 
the cvs gnucash, and see if it finds any orphan transactions!  Thank you 
for introducing that feature; and

(2) there are definite problems with stock sales in gnucash that remain 
to be fixed.

I now have to work out what transaction I can put in to get rid of the 
inbalance.

Derrick


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