Brought forward in Transaction Reports

[Amm]

Hello,


Ok after lot of thinking, here is my trick / workaround / solution.

For all accounts in Assets / Equity / Liability, wherever there was "Balance" remaining at year end (31-Mar-2013), I added ZERO transaction (dated 01-Apr-2014) with description "Brought Forward", and used "Equity-Opening Balances" as transfer account.


So report now shows that ZERO transaction like this.

Date                      Description         Amount  Balance
01/04/2013    Brought Forward       0.00     10000.00
31/10/2013    Professional Tax     -2000.00     8000.00 

Hope this trick helps anyone else who also want the same thing.


Amm.



----- Original Message -----
From: Amm <ammdispose-gnucash at yahoo.com>
To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
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Sent: Monday, 31 March 2014 3:20 PM
Subject: Brought forward in Transaction Reports

Hello,

I am Gnucash user from about 1 and half year. (But I am not accountant, so pardon me if I missed something very obvious).

This year I intend use report (transaction) option provided for printing book directly.

I have this scenario:

Lets say there is Asset Account called "Advance Professional Tax".

Financial year starts 01-Apr-2013 and ends 31-Mar-2014. But my Gnucash contains previous year entries as well.

On 31-Mar-2013 (that is previous year end) there was balance of 10000.00.

Lets say this financial year I had transaction (debit) of 2000.00 on say 31-Oct-2013

When I generate report, it just shows one entry. i.e.:
Date         Description        Amount      Balance
31/10/2013   Professional Tax   2000.00     8000.00


(Here it does not make explicitly clear from where balance of 8000 came!)


What I want is it should show "Brought Forward" entry as well for clarity. i.e:

Date                 Description        Amount      Balance
1/04/2013    Brought Forward    10000.00    10000.00

31/10/2013    Professional Tax     -2000.00    8000.00 

First entry (10000.00) does not really exist in account. But I want it to be printed for clarity.

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance.


Amm