balance sheet rollup-totals are $0

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:

> When I display a Balance Sheet report, rollup-totals display
> as $0.  I have tried to reproduce below the Assets portion
> as it is shown, replacing tabs with spaces and compressing
> it horizontally a little (you'll need to view this message
> using a fixed-width font).  I only show the Assets section
> for brevity; the same problem exists in other sections too.
> (In addition to the $0 value rollup-totals problem, I find
> the indentation of the amounts rather strange.  Is it correct?)
>

By default, those various parent accounts ("Current Assets", for example)
don't include the children's balances. Check your report options. On the
"display" tab, change the "parent account balances" option.


>
> ================================================
> Balance Sheet 2008-12-31
>
> Assets
> Assets                                         USD 0.00
>    Current Assets               USD 0.00
>        Cash       USD 314.15 USD 314.15
>                      \96,500 USD 900.44
>        Checking               USD 616.36
>        Receipts                 USD 0.00
>        Savings              USD 5,512.91
>    Fixed Assets                 USD 0.00
>        Vehicle             USD 10,527.52
>        CDs                  USD 8,726.29
>        IRAs                USD 15,029.22
>    Accounts Receivable                    USD 1,121.32
> Imbalance-USD                                                USD 0.00
> Total Assets                                             USD 42748.21
> ================================================
>
> This is on Window-2000, Gnucash-2.2.6.  If it is relevant,
> my machine has a default locale (Windows regional settings)
> of Japanese but the Gnucash file was initialized with a
> default currency of USD.  Preferences->Reports->Default
> Report Currency is set to USD.  All accounts are denoted
> in USD except that the Cash account has two sub-accounts:
> Cash-US in USD and Cash-JP in Japanese Yen.
>
> Any idea what's wrong or how I fix it?  The Accounts page
> shows the rollup-totals correctly.
>
> (Also, any way to tell Gnucash to suppress the "USD" texts,
> i.e. only explicitly display the currency when it is not
> the same as the default?)


I don't know the answer, but I suspect that has something to do with your
locale. When I run a balance sheet with multiple currencies, instead of
"USD" I see "$".  I only see the three-letter symbols on non-US currencies.

-Charles