Grand Total in Transaction report

[Sutton Hill Church]

Dear Maf

This file is only for recording what the donors give me, as I can quickly
generate individual reports for each donor, when it is time for me to claim
back the tax.

I have been using Microsoft Access to do the same thing, but using the split
transaction and auto fill facility in gnucash has made it quicker for me.

I then enter the total figure for the day into the Cash Account in the main
Income/Expense file for the club financial reports i.e. Profit & Loss Report
and Balance Sheet.

Regards


-----Original Message-----
From: Maf. King [mailto:maf at chilwell.net] 
Sent: 19 July 2012 22:50
To: Sutton Hill Church
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Grand Total in Transaction report

On Thu 19 July 12 22:09:48 Sutton Hill Church wrote:
> Dear Maf
> 
> I've attached a copy of the file for you to examine. For Data 
> Protection, I've gone through the copy and changed the text in the
descriptions.
> 
> I've also attached a copy of a Report in PDF Format.
> 
> Regards
> 

Hi,

I can see exactly the problem you describe.  If you set the option [general]
-
> Sign Reverses to None, the grand total becomes zero, which maybe makes 
> more
sense!

Also, just reporting on Income account, (set [Display] Account Name and
[General] Style: Multi-line) also makes some sense to me.

I'm too tired to get my head around the root of the problem at the moment,
but it seems that the report is picking up the income twice.  I'm not sure
that I quite follow the sequence that you are trying to model in GC.  just
so I'm clear when I look at this with fresh eyes tomorrow, the process in
"real life" 
is something like:
Donor number 06 hands over a donation of cash in an envelope marked 06
(which you have to track for claiming gift aid back)
 
The cash gets put into a bank? or is it held as petty cash and spent as
needed?

Cheers,
Maf.




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