Subaccount totalling oddity

[Carsten Rinke]

Hi Fred,

at the first glance I would guess that something is your account tree
setup is not as it should (well, it is what it is:  a guess).

I get the impression that the account types are mixed: The child types
(asset) are different to the parent type (expense).
Especially the second part of the description (-32.09) is leading me to
this.

Is the parent a "placeholder" or does it also contain transactions?

Any other items that you specified for the accounts?

Did you change anything in the "Edit->Preferences" (like account
period)?

If you move the non-zero balance accounts from the original tree (so
only 7 subaccounts remaining) -> does this bring the wanted result?

Regs,
Carsten

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 19:21 +0100, Fred Bone wrote:
> GnuCash 2.4.11 r22268 on WinXP-Pro SP3.
> 
> I have a subaccount of "Assets" called "Reimbursable Expenses", with nine 
> subaccounts of its own, where I put ... well, it should be obvious. Only 
> two of the subaccounts have nonzero balances, currently at 27.90 and 8.49 
> (and all txns are in the past); however, the amount shown on the 
> "Accounts" tab under both "Present" and "Total" is 4.30 (I would expect 
> 36.39). The subaccounts show the expected values in the "Accounts" tab.
> 
> Trying to resolve the discrepancy I moved the subaccounts to a new 
> parent, upon which the offending account shows -32.09. However, the 
> current balance (shown when opening the account) is zero.
> 
> Running "Actions->Check & Repair" makes no difference (AFAICT).
> 
> Any suggestions on tracking down the cause?
> 
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