Familiarizing myself with GNUCash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> writes:

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> On 2013-01-08 19:36, John Marquez wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  
>> I have just recently downloaded GNUCash and am slowly familiarizing
>> myself with it. I am finding it quite an easy to follow program and
>> overall enjoyable experience.
>>  
>> The only query I have thus far is when I change the Start and End
>> dates, the amounts on my Account Summary do not always change to take
>> the new dates into consideration.
>>  
>> I recently input all my financials into GNUCash from the start of 2012
>> until the end of 2012. I then started playing around with the
>> “Absolute” dates so I can see what my financials were for certain
>> quarters of the year. When I did this with an Absolute Start date of
>> 1/1/2012 to any other date it worked fine. But when I altered the
>> Absolute start date to any other date other than 1/1/2012 the Account
>> Summary would not reflect the change.
>>  
>> For example: If I set an Absolute Start Date of 1/6/2012 to
>> 31/12/2012, my Account Summary would show the same results as if I had
>> requested an Account Summary for the whole year.
>>  
>> Could you please inform me if on what I would need to do to be able to
>> get Account Summary figures for only the second half of a year.

The reason for this is that the Account Summary report only shows the
ending balances.  So the "start" date doesn't matter on that report.

Try instead an Income Statement (P&L) report, to see the differences
when you change dates.

>> Regards
>> John Marquez

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