gnucash setup

[David Carlson]

On 5/28/2013 11:37 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
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> pretty much all weekend).
>
> JOSEPH AIELLO <jraiello at verizon.net> writes:
>
>>                 Hi Derek;                                                     
>>                                                                               
>>                 I am still having problems in setting up the account.         
>>                                                                               
>>                 I set up a simple account and right off the bat I went screwy.
> The only thing that looks screwey to me is the "Equity Statement".  My
> guess is that you're including both your Checking and Equity accounts in
> the report.  What accounts are selected in the report options?
> Honestly, I have never used that report, personally.  All the rest of
> your reports look completely reasonable.
>
>>                 set up the acct initially with $1000,did nothing else, yet    
>>                 wound up with $2000 for investment. Is this possible?         
>>                 attached should be 5 snapshots of Gnucash stuff.              
> It is possible if you have the wrong set of accounts configured for the
> report.
>
>>                 Can you test this? setup a account  with $1000 and see what   
>>                 you get?                                                      
> Sure.  When I do I get the same results as you.  Honestly, it looks like
> the report is wrong.  I suggest you file a bug report.  Like I said,
> I've never used this report report.  I had to search to even find it.
> The only reports I tend to use are the P&L, Balance Sheet, Transaction
> Report, and sometimes a Cash Flow.
>
>>                 p.s. how come when I do options > display and uncheck "omit   
>>                 zero balance fiqures" it is valid for that instance only?     
> This is as designed -- you are setting the options for that instance of
> that report.  You can have multiple instances of the same report set up
> with different configurations.  There is no global report configuration
> for "omit zero balance figures".
>
>>                 Is this beyond me?                                            
> I don't know, you tell me.
>
>>                  .....thanks  .... joe                                        
> -derek
>
Joseph,
Just for jollies, click on Tools:General Ledger.  If there are only two
transactions present, your transfer of $1,000.00 from opening balance to
checking and your transfer of $400.00 from checking to payroll expense
as you suggest in your previous e-mail, then there may be a problem with
the report.  If there are other transactions, the report may be correct
and your problem may lie elsewhere.

Your 'snapshots' are not getting through to the list.

David C