balance sheet display value for place holder accounts (always $0)

[David T.]

I believe you can change this in the report Options. Click the Options button, select the Display tab, and fiddle with the Parent Account Balances setting.

HTH,
David

--- On Wed, 10/22/08, zhangweiwu at realss.com <zhangweiwu at realss.com> wrote:

> From: zhangweiwu at realss.com <zhangweiwu at realss.com>
> Subject: balance sheet display value for place holder accounts (always $0)
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 7:53 AM
> Hello.
> 
> I am comparing my company's balance sheet with the one
> made by
> accounting service company for us. The biggest difference
> is, on the
> placeholder account (the account used to hold other
> accounts), the
> balance sheet from GNU Cash 2.2.7 always display
> '$0' while the version
> from accounting service company has the sub-total of all
> accounts in it.
> 
> e.g. it's a bit funny to see this from GnuCash:
> 
> Asset                           $0
>        Cash Asset               $0
>                   Cash       $4000
>                   Other Cash  $400
>        Total Cash Assert            $4400
> 
> Where accountant's report (made using Excel) looks more
> reasonable:
> 
> Asset
>        Cash Asset                   $4400
>                   Cash       $4000
>                   Other Cash  $400
> 
> I guess it's better to either replace value of
> placeholder with the
> subtotal of accounts within it, or not to display its value
> at all.
> "Cash Asset is $0" is always funny to read, worse
> than having not
> mentioned value of "Cash Asset" (though I am new
> to this area).
> 
> What do you think?
> 
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