Accounts Receivable & Transaction Report

[Hilco Wijbenga]

Hi all,

I just started with GNUCash so I've been playing around a bit. I
entered a Customer, a Job, and an Invoice. The invoice ends up in
Assets:Accounts Receivable (of type A/Receivable) and its Income
Account is set to Income:Consulting. I believe I followed the tutorial
correctly and, as far as I can tell, it all works great. Even the tax
is done nicely.

However, the Transaction Report doesn't make sense to me. It lists a
Grand Total that is twice as big as it should be (or rather twice as
big as I expected). Basically, it seems to add the Assets:Accounts
Receivable and the Income:Consulting together. Should I not use the
Transaction Report in this case (i.e. it was not designed to handle
this scenario) or did I set things up incorrectly after all? Actually,
now that I think about it, it doesn't even make sense to list the
invoice's value in both Assets and Income. After all, it's not income
yet, is it?

I get the impression that I'm misunderstanding some of these
bookkeeping terms. :-)

Cheers,
Hilco