Difference between total assets and liabilities

[David Carlson]

On 11/5/2012 7:36 AM, AlainCageda wrote:
> The difference is only about 18 € out of a balance sheet of more than 100 000. Not significant fiancially but I have to get get rid of it. Assets need to equal Liabilities. If there was a small problem like that in a regular account I'd just register the amount as Loss or Profit. But here the difference is not the balance of an account I can manage. It's the result of a substraction (or addition for all I know) on which I have no power. So, Derek suggested the difference may come   from a faulty currency conversion. Do you know how I can fix that?
>
> TIA
> Alain
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>> De : AlainCageda <alaincageda at yahoo.fr>
>> À : "derek at ihtfp.com" <derek at ihtfp.com>; ""gnucash-user at gnucash.org"" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
>> Envoyé le : Dimanche 4 novembre 2012 18h49
>> Objet : Tr : Difference between total assets and liabilities
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>> Complement: My credit card payment in USD are automatically converted into EURO so I diont think they are involved, but I do have accounts for USD and GBP in cash. So what should I check about them?
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>>> De : AlainCageda <alaincageda at yahoo.fr>
>>> À : Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
>>> Envoyé le : Dimanche 4 novembre 2012 18h28
>>> Objet : Re: Difference between total assets and liabilities
>>>
>>> Yes. I'm mainly in euros but I do occasionally deal in  USD.
>>> Do you know what I should check?
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>>>
>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> De : Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
>>>> À : AlainCageda <alaincageda at yahoo.fr>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
>>>> Envoyé le : Dimanche 4 novembre 2012 17h21
>>>> Objet : Re: Difference between total assets and liabilities
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are you dealing with multiple currencies or stocks?  This error tends to occur when you do not properly account for the gain or loss of trading.
>>>>
>>>> -derek
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my HTC smartphone
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>>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>>> From: "AlainCageda" <alaincageda at yahoo.fr>
>>>> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>> Subject: Difference between total assets and liabilities
>>>> Date: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 11:17 AM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> My problem is this:
>>>>
>>>> The result of my Income / Expense statement is say:10 000.
>>>>
>>>> My balance sheet shows 
>>>>
>>>> Registered Gains (or whatever it is in english I'm working in French) : 10 000.00
>>>> Unrealized losses (                        d°                       ) : 18.00
>>>>                      making my Liabilituies 18€ lower than my Assets.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone has an idea where this come from and a solution to fix it?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>> Alain 
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Have you tried running reports for different times and checking to see
if the error changes?  Every time it changes there is at least one
erroneous transaction.  By checking shorter intervals you can close in
on a date range.  If you are very lucky, there is only one transaction,
and you can close in on it fairly quickly.

David C
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