How can I get 'current' to be the total of the 'current' balances of an account and all its subaccounts?

[Mike C.]

I am new to GnuCash and had the same issue with a definition of the 
account overview columns.  I set up a dummy account with some entries to 
try to define the columns and this is what I determined.  
Present/Present USD is a total from the earliest entry to the current 
date and does not include future scheduled transactions.  Balance is the 
balance in the account at the end of all entries not including future 
scheduled entries but does include post dated entries.  Balance Period 
includes the net of entries for the period set in 
Edit>Preferences>Accounting Period.  Total USD is the total from the 
earliest entry to the end of all entries.  The Grand Total assets at the 
bottom is the value at the end of the Accounting Period set.  Profit is 
the income - expenses for the Accounting period.
I'm know this is not complete and hope someone else can expand this 
definition or correct any mistakes I have made.
Mike

Ken Heard wrote:
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> David Stibbe wrote:
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>> Odd, I hadn't noticed this before,  however, in the accounts overview:
>> the total column shows the total of an account including the total of
>> its sub-accounts; however, the column 'current'  only shows the
>> current balance of the current account and does *not* include the
>> current balance of its subaccounts.
>>
>> How can I get the 'current' column to include the current amounts of
>> the sub-accounts?
>>     
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>   
>>> Never mind this; I have already found how to do this (big blue arrow
>>> in the accounts menu apparently isn't for ordering, but for selecting
>>> columns)
>>>       
>
> David, you have (inadvertently?) pointed to a major problem.  The green
> arrow at the end of the column headings in the accounts window -- if
> that is the arrow you are referring to above -- allows selection of the
> column headings.  Several of these provide different aggregations of the
> amounts posted in the accounts shown.  The problem is what these
> aggregations represent is nowhere explained.
>
> On 2009 May 6 I posted the following message to the list:
>
> "At the extreme right of the column headings bar in the accounts tab is
> an downward pointing arrow.  Clicking on this arrow opens a window with
> all the available display options for the accounts tab.
>
> "Some of the options are intuitive, such as "accounts code" and
> "placeholder', but most are not.  Is there any place where the
> difference between, for example, "present", "balance", "total", etc. are
> explained?"
>
> This post was never answered, most likely because no one on the list
> knew the answer.  Does *anybody*, on or off the list know?  If this
> information appeared in any of the documentation -- however imperfectly
> - -- I just possibly could have been able to figure them out myself.
>
> Regards, Ken Heard
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