Balance sheet does not balance.

[Derek Atkins]

Find all your stock sale transactions and make sure they are all
properly balanced for your capital gains.  Check the archives for
additional discission of this topic.

-derek

Quoting Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net>:

> I am running GnuCash 1.8.8 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
>
> My balance sheet no longer balances.
>
> Balance Sheet 2005-12-01 - 2006-12-31
> Assets
> Assets	                     $0.00
>   Current Assets	$43,067.69
>   Investments	       $209,960.34
> Assets	   	                   $253,028.03 <---<<<
> Liabilities
> Liabilities	             $0.00
>   	Credit Card	  -$587.16
> Liabilities	         	       $587.16
> Unrealized Gains(Losses)	   	 $0.00
> Equity
> Equity	                     $0.00
>   Opening Balances   -$126,198.57
> Retained Earnings	   	      -$228.00
> Net Profit	   	           $126,260.83
> Total Equity	   	           $252,231.40
> Liabilities & Equity	   	   $252,818.56 <---<<<
>
> I did search for a transaction with $209.47 in it and there is none.
>
> My question is "how to I go about finding my mistake?" (I assume GnuCash
> itself is not at fault as this stuff used to balance.) Unfortunately, I have
> added several days of transactions since the last time I looked at the
> balance sheet. Is there a tool to find unbalanced transactions, for example?
>
> If worst comes to worst, I could restore the entire GnuCash directory from a
> few days ago (I have daily backups for a week, and weekly backups for a
> month, and the problem is recent) and start over, but I would not like to do
> that if I do not need to.
>
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