Trial balance report out of balance

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jul 24 13:12:48 EDT 2007


Quoting Tom Roeschen <tomroeschen at sbcglobal.net>:

>
> I am using GnuCash version 2.0.5 on SUSE 10.2.  My trial balance for the
> month of January is in balance. When I print it for the month of February it
> is out of balance.  What steps should I take to find out why this is
> happening?

Binary-search the month of Feb to find the day when it goes out of
balance and then look for transactions on that day (+/- 1 day).  most
likely it's a change-of-commodity (e.g. a sale of stock) without the
corresponding gain/loss.

-derek
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