GNU cash 2.4.11 trial balance bug?

[David Carlson]

On 3/15/2015 9:00 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> If there IS a bug in the trial balance feature, should of course be
> fixed.
>
> However there is the matter of how we might use a "trial balance" when
> using computerized accounting software. Now I learned in the old days
> when it was pen and ink on paper so I know what a trial balance is,
> why it was done, and the sorts of human introduced errors it helped
> you find (and so correct) before going to the next step of preparing
> reports. Checkpoints of this sort were very important in the days of
> pen and ink on paper.
>
> But computerized accounting systems are different. They simply will
> not allow entry of out of balance transactions and will never make an
> error transcribing numbers from one place to another. So assuming you
> have already checked to make sure that there is nothing in "Imbalance"
> or "Orphan", how are you making use of a "trial balance"? After all,
> it WILL be in balance, no trial about it.
>
> Michael D Novack
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There are still a few cases where there are errors that humans can make
which the trial balance can at least assist with finding.  One is
transposing digits when entering a value and the other that is commonly
used in GnuCash is to detect incorrectly calculated capital gains in
closing investment transactions.

There are probably other uses as well.

David C