Reports will not show income accounts

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>:

> On Dec 16, 2007 8:25 AM, Walter Sams <walter at samsco.biz> wrote:
>> I recently imported my quicken checkbook file into gnu cash  ( v 2.2.1  on
>> Mandriva 2008 machine)
>>
>> all is well until I try and create a report that shows income
>> with all reports showing income accounts, I get an error saying no accounts
>> selected.  (I have reconciled the accounts and all balances are correct.)
>>
>> I then open the options on the report and select all assets
>>
>> hit the apply button and get the same error.
>>
>> Is there somewhere in the setup that I failed to tell the program that
>> assets:income:Salary should be placed on a report that shows income?
>>
>> Thank you for any help you can give with such limited information
>
> I'm not a gnucash developer and thus know the behavior of the program
> only as a (happy) user, not from a knowledge of the code. But I'd
> suggest checking the account type of, say, assets:income:Salary -- it
> should be 'INCOME'. If not, change it to 'INCOME' and try the report
> again. I'm guessing the report that you are trying to generate
> restricts itself to income accounts. I may be wrong, but the test is
> easy.

GnuCash does not allow you to have an Income Account under an Asset
Account, so "Assets:Income:Salary" makes no sense, and isn't allowed.
So I suspect that Don is correct and you have your account types
incorrectly configured.

> /Don

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-derek

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