Chart of accounts

[David Carlson]

On 8/24/2011 11:37 AM, Mike Leone wrote:
> On 8/24/2011 12:00 PM, John Layman wrote:
>> I think what you are referring to as the CoA might more correctly be called
>> the Trial Balance.  You might ponder why it is that Googling the phrase
>> "chart of accounts" returns a lot of sample charts with nary a monetary
>> figure to be seen.
> Granted, it's been 30 years since my accounting classes, but that's the
> way I remember it. A Trial Balance is a listing of all accounts with
> balances, and a Chart of Accounts is just accounts (names and perhaps
> descriptions, no balances).
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9:20 AM
>> To: john.layman at laymanandlayman.com
>> Cc: 'David Carlson'; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: Chart of accounts
>>
>> "John Layman" <john.layman at laymanandlayman.com> writes:
>>
>>> To my mind, the CoA doesn't include balances at all.  It is simply the 
>>> hierarchy of accounts, an abstract depiction of how ledger entries are 
>>> structured for reporting.
>> Ah, see, to my mind that's not the CoA -- that would be the "Account List".
>> No, there is no report to print the Account List.  Patches welcome, but I
>> honestly don't see any reason anyone would ever want to do that.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:57 PM
>>> To: john.layman at laymanandlayman.com
>>> Cc: 'David Carlson'; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Re: Chart of accounts
>>>
>>> "John Layman" <john.layman at laymanandlayman.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> None of this eliminates balances in 2.4.6.  They show up even when
>>> unticked.
>>>> True, you can set the depth to 1 and have no balances, but the 
>>>> original poster is looking for a way to print his chart of accounts, 
>>>> not just the top level.
>>> I guess I'm still completely confused as to what the original poster 
>>> wants to do.  To me the CoA includes not just the list of account 
>>> names but also the account balances, and potentially other information 
>>> (account description, commodity/currency, etc).  Maybe I just don't 
>>> understand what "print the CoA" means to the OP.  By *my* definition 
>>> of CoA, the Account Summary is exactly what you need.
>>>
>>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>>> -derek
>
If the goal is a complete list of accounts with no data, how about
exporting the list first, opening the empty data file and creating an
Account Summary Report on the empty file?  There would still be zero
amounts, but they could then be more easily filtered out.

David Carlson
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