Balance sheet doesn't balance

Stephen Myers stevem at scn.org
Sat Jan 27 02:01:28 EST 2007


Thanks Derek,

I had restructured my portfolio and had "sold" some commodities and "bought"
some new ones.  Because I was not actually selling I didn't bother to look
at how to properly account for the "sale".  I went back and split the "sale"
per the concept guide and that fixed up my problem.

On 1/26/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Most likely it means you didn't properly account for unrealized
> gains/losses
> when you sold some commodities.
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Stephen Myers <stevem at scn.org>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been using gnucash for a while now and am starting to make use of
> some
> > of the reports.
> >
> > I'm looking at my balance sheet and i'm finding that
> >
> > assets != liabilities + equity
> >
> > Not sure what I've done to mess up the balance sheet, so I though I'd
> ask
> > for some ideas of where to look.
> >
> > I'm using gnucash 2.0.2
> >
> > Thanks.
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