Imbalances-Trial Balance

[Richard Lindgren]

David

 

It sure would nice if that shortcut could be remembered by someone.

 

Thanks David

 

From: David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 3:50 PM
To: Richard Lindgren
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Imbalances-Trial Balance

 

This comes from not accurately tracking your realized capital gains, which
Quicken will not export, even if it does report them correctly( I am not
sure, I don't have the investment version any more.)  If you want to have
accurate history, you will need to fix each closing transaction(usually
sales) individually.  
See the guide section on stock sales.  The documentation is a little thin,
but there are a couple of threads here about some of the quirks.  One of the
quirks is that GnuCash does not include commissions in the capital gains if
you set them out as separate line items in your transactions.  Then you need
to have your own spreadsheet anyway come tax time.
If you do not need accurate history before last year, there is a shortcut,
but I do not remember the details. Others please help here.

David C

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Richard Lindgren
<richard_lindgren at comcast.net> wrote:

I have manually moved my files from Quicken to GnuCash. In doing so, my
Trial balance report shows that I am off by $2,065.18. This goes back to
2007.



What I have in GnuCash, are all of my investments and all other assets,
including my income and expenses from prior years "balances" and my current
years activities from January 1, 2013. All previous records have been
inserted manually by using my Equity account. The accounts  were not
imported.



Somewhere I have made an error in some entry. I have looked through
everything and CAN NOT FIND IT!



All of my other account reports balance with my bank statements and
everything else seems to be working fine. It appears that everything is in
balance, as long as I don't run my trial balance report.



Is there some way to make an adjustment so my Trial balance will be balance
as it is supposed to without messing up everything else?



Love the program, but need to fix my "bug" so the rest of my accounting will
start off on the right foot.



Thank you in advance for your help.



Richard

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