Balance sheet does not tally

Jitendra Kothari jitkothari at gmail.com
Sat Jan 4 02:46:09 EST 2014


Thanks Mike

Will install ver 2.6 & check it out

If it does not resolve will check the balance sheet at different dates.

Regards,
Jiten
On Jan 4, 2014 9:58 AM, "Mike Alexander" <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> The transaction you quote below shouldn't be considered balanced if its
> exchange rate is not 1.5.  Prior to 2.6 there was a bug that would
> sometimes consider transactions like this to be balanced, but that bug has
> been fixed.  When I fixed that bug I discovered that I had a number of
> unbalanced transactions that had never been noticed before.
>
> I'm not sure what, if anything, this has to do with the original question
> about balance sheets not balancing.  Unfortunately I don't have much to add
> to that.  One brute force way to attack this problem is to run balance
> sheet reports at various dates in the past to see when it first fails to
> balance.  Then look for transactions around that date to see which one is
> causing the problem.
>
>          Mike
>
> --On January 4, 2014 6:54:45 AM +0400 Jitendra Kothari <
> jitkothari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> Any help to check thia issue.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jiten
>> On Jan 1, 2014 2:26 PM, "Jitendra Kothari" <jitkothari at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using ver 2.4.13.
>>>
>>> If it helps, the data file i am using is the same for last 4 years+
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jiten
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Alun Champion
>>> <alun at achampion.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>  Which version of Gnucash are you using?
>>>> In the latest (2.5.X & 2.6.X) I found a lot of my multi-currency
>>>> transactions were not balancing (I use trading accounts). I had to
>>>> manually edit the exchange rate for all the unbalanced ones. It
>>>> seems that Gnucash 2.4 didn't validate the exchange rate and
>>>> allowed me to manually enter the splits of foreign transactions.
>>>> When the exchange rate was fixed the same transaction then balanced.
>>>> E.g.
>>>> Account $: 150
>>>> Account £: -100
>>>> Trading:Currency:USD: -$150
>>>> Trading:Currency:GBP: £100
>>>>
>>>> Balanced in 2.4, unbalanced in 2.5/2.6 until I fixed the exchange
>>>> rate to 1.5
>>>>    -Alun.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 30 December 2013 11:59, Jitendra Kothari <jitkothari at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> > I am using Gnucash with 2 currencies for last 4 years.
>>>> > The issue I face is the balance sheet does not tally, tried using
>>>> trading
>>>> > account.
>>>> > What steps can i do find the reason behind the difference.
>>>> > Thank you in advance for your help.
>>>> > Jiten
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