Trial Balance Report

[Keith A. Milner]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 06:25:28 Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> > > I want to see:
> > >
> > > Expenses:Utilities $75
> > > Expenses:Rent      $100
>
> Perhaps I shouldn't butt in, but in company reports, isn't it usual to see
> something like:
>
> Expenses                              $175
> 	Utilities			$75
> 	Rent			      $100
>
> I haven't seen what Keith apparently wants, with "Expenses" repeated
> against each sub-account.  I doubt whether it is available.

Feel free to butt in.

My example probably wasn't the best one, but what I was looking for is that 
the parent account can have the totals for its sub accounts. It doesn't seem 
to do this... at all.

For instance, if I select only the "Expenses" parent account and "Level of sub 
accounts" as "All", from what Derek was saying this should give you a total 
for all the sub accounts.

It does not. I get the following:

Account Name 	   	Debit	Credit
Expenses	   	   	   
    	   	£0.00 	£0.00

(I can assure you that the Expenses total is considerably more than zero. It 
shows correctly in the Account tree).

Basically I cannot seem to get any of the parent accounts to show totals under 
any conditions on this report. Derek suggests it is a bug, and I tend to 
agree.

Looking at the income statement report as a comparison, this does the parent 
totals correctly. (Although I've found a different problem with this report 
which I will post separately about).

Would the fix for this be in the core Gnucash code, or is it likely to be 
fixable by modifying the scheme report?

Cheers,


-- 
Keith A. Milner
mailto:kamilner at superlative.org