No totals in balance sheet report

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Derek Atkins wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Quoting Daalmation <daalmaation at yahoo.com>:
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>>I am using GnuCash for the first time. I entered opening balances and 
>>all looks fine in the Account Name window but totals and sub totals 
>>for assets, liabilities and equity all show a zero balance when I 
>>open the Balance Sheet report. Same thing happens with other reports 
>>I have tried. I must be missing something obvious. Can someone help?
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>Check your currency settings?  What account currencies?  What's
>your report currency?  And if they are different do you have an
>exchange rate?
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Also check the very obvious --- the "as of" date. A balance sheet is 
always as of some specified date and if this is before the date of your 
opening transactions they will not be included.

Michael