DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACCTS PAGE & REGISTER

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Message: 10 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:27:43 -0400 From: Derek Atkins 
<warlord at MIT.EDU> Subject: Re: NO BALANCE ON ACCOUNTS PAGE To: 
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Do the parent and children accounts have different currencies?
What version of GnuCash?  What Distro/OS?

*REPLY:  No, the currencies are the same, US Dollars, and the version is 2.2.9 for Windows.  I was not stating anything about different currencies.*

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> Will any of these make a difference? I took it that he was complaining 

Yes, it will make a difference. In particular the currency question.
> about the fact that only in the "Total" column do parent account balances include the child accounts. And the "Total" column includes future transactions as well as to-date ones. There's no way to see rolled-up totals on the Accounts page, unless you refrain from entering future-dated transactions.

On 13 April 2009 at 12:01, Derek Atkins said:

>> >> Hi,
>> >> _ <GBoor at comcast.net> writes:
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>>> >> > Can someone share with me the rules that govern why balances don't always show up on the accounts page even through the transactions themselves are all in the registers?   I'm trying to set up some parent and child relationships and I need both parent and child balances to show up on the accounts page.  The transactions themselves are all present in the detail registers for both parent and child, but on the accounts page, the parent just shows as a zero balance.
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*REPLY:  What I'm saying is that I would expect to see the same TOTAL 
balance on the ACCOUNTS PAGE as I see in the register itself for that 
particular PARENT account.  That did not happen, but I must have a 
misunderstanding on the way the parent and child works. But I'm still 
working with it to see if I can get it to do what I want.   Otherwise, I 
will just have to go back to my Excel spreadsheet.  GnuCash does not 
seem to be quite as versatile as I had thought.  I just thought someone 
might have experienced something similar and had a quick answer.   
Future dates also had nothing to do with the problem.  Thanks.*