Balance sheet after using "Close book"?

[David G. Hamblen]

On 06/23/2010 08:56 AM, Soren Hansen wrote:
>
> Ok. I see how that makes sense. My accountant (a well-respected,
> reasonably big accounting company here in Denmark) just suggested that
> it was was normal procedure to have this single summary page with the
> totals of all the accounts. Perhaps I misunderstood.
>
>    
>


This sounds like the report which I use in Peachtree Accounting (and not 
available in Gnucash) is called "General Ledger Account Summary".  It 
has 6 columns, the first two are the account number and name.  The rows 
are sorted by account number.  The next 4 columns are Start Balance, 
Debit change, Credit change, Net Change, and Ending Balance.  The report 
options are Start Date and End Date.   This particular report lets me 
see at a glance which accounts have activity during the period, and by 
double-clicking on the Net Change or End Balance, I can see all the 
transactions in that account.   Perhaps once I switch to GC-2.4, I'll be 
able to generate such a report :-).   The Gnucash Transaction report is 
the closest to this (if there were an option to show totals only, rather 
than all the individual transactions).