income statement showing inaccurate number

[David T.]

I’m not much of an expert, but it looks like you’re using multiple currencies, and I’d hazard a guess that your imbalances has to do with your implementation of the multiple currencies. As I do not use multiple currencies, I can’t advise further. Perhaps someone else can.

David

On Oct 24, 2013, at 8:13 AM, jp70m <jp70m at yahoo.de> wrote:

> thank you very much for your answer.
> i reconcile and 'cleaned' all imbalances but nothing changed.
> 
> so far there is only ONE expense account. so reconciling is easy and 
> quick....
> 
> for your peruse i send you the screenshot.
> 
> the balance sheet shows the correct numbers, also the account summary 
> and the sheet "account".
> 
> -has there been a bug?
> -is there something in the settings i need to change?
> -there is also a number of settings in files on the harddisk?
> 
> i would appreciate your insight.
> best
> jp
> 
> Am 22.10.2013 23:31, schrieb Mike or Penny Novack [via GnuCash]:
>> jp70m wrote:
>> 
>>> hi
>>> running version 2.4.13. built 2013-4-21
>>> 
>>> i've entered serveral transactions and run an income statement from 
>> begining
>>> of year to a specific date June 30, 2013. there are transactions 
>> before this
>>> date and after. now, i found that only part of the transactions are
>>> reflected in the balance of the income statement account. the report 
>> stops
>>> taking transactions in on June 28. leaving out 29 & 30. Changing cut off
>>> date to Jul31 produces same odd. result.
>>> 
>>> in the account summary report work when change the cut off date. any 
>> idea
>>> what is wrong?
>>> 
>>> thanks
>>> jp
>>> 
>>> 
>> There may be a language problem (judging by the second paragraph) but
>> I'll try anyway.
>> 
>> a) Works reliably for me. It is normal to always be running an Income
>> Statement (aka Statement of Revenues aka Profit and Loss) between two 
>> dates.
>> 
>> b) When you say transactions within the date range are not showing up
>> what exactly do you mean. How are you telling that this has happened?
>> This report doesn't show transactions, just the balances of all included
>> income or expense accounts as affected by transactions within the
>> specified interval. Is what you are saying is that you aren't seeing THE
>> EFFECT of some transaction you know was in the period? In THAT case 
>> ........
>> 
>> c) Take a very close look at these "missing" transactions. Did they go
>> into the correct accounts? When you check the special "Orphan" and
>> "Imbalance" accounts these have ZERO balances? << example: you know you
>> had a BIG expense transaction on June 29. You entered this transaction
>> from your checking account and MEANT the other side of that transaction
>> to be the car repairs account -- darn replacing the blown engine was
>> expensive. But you accidentally hit enter and so the orphan of imbalance
>> account was used by default. Then that expense would NOT show up when
>> you ran the Income Statement (because not in an account of type income
>> or type expense) >>
>> 
>> Michael
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