Another unbalanced balance sheet

[Derrick Ashby]

Derek,

Thanks.  As you have probably noticed from my subsequent email, I 
managed to sort this out.  Sorry to put you to the trouble of a 
response.  On the subject of "Accumulate splits" I have noticed in the 
past that when processing a payment gnucash is just as likely to create 
multiple transactions out of one payment - I noticed that on the 5th 
January, it split one cheque into 4 transactions!  I haven't used 1.8.10 
long enough yet to know whether this problem has gone away.  Another 
problem with processing payments has been that the program does not 
always mark an invoice as paid in the customer invoices window - these 
two behaviours are often associated. i.e. If a cheque is broken up into 
multiple transactions, it won't be marked as paid.

Derrick

Derek Atkins wrote:

>Derrick Ashby <daeroncs at fastmail.fm> writes:
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>>Hello all
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>>I've got another unbalanced balance sheet, this time in my business 
>>accounts.  I've loaded the backup accounts files back several days and 
>>found the newest one in which the accounts balance.  It happened three 
>>days ago.  Is it possible to use the log files created (or any other 
>>method) to work out which transaction(s) caused the inbalance?  I 
>>upgraded to 1.8.10 at about that time, or a little earlier, so it may 
>>have something to do with the bug that Derek reported.  What does 
>>"Accumulate Splits" mean, anway?
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>Check your AR and AP accounts and see if you have imbalanced
>transactions.  Most likely you are seeing one of the side effects of
>the bug I "reported" yesterday.
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>"Accumulate Splits" (which is the default) means that if you have
>multiple invoice line-items that go into the same account the invoice
>code will accumulate all those entries into a single split.
>Unfortunately this "default" is broken in 1.8.10.
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>-derek
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