Report Problem Since Updating Gnucash

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Sep 4 09:57:28 EDT 2015


Hi Matthew,

Matthew Lybanon <lybanon at earthlink.net> writes:

> I’d appreciating some help in tailoring a Gnucash report—or choosing
> the correct report.  Sorry about the length of this post.
>
> A club I belong to has an annual show that’s big enough to have its
> own account, and I’m the “show treasurer.”  All I need to do is
> balance a checkbook—just income and expenditures, no salaries, taxes,
> investments, etc.  For years I’ve used Gnucash very happily.  The
> software is capable of a lot more than I use it for, and it does what
> I need very well.
>
> For a long time I stuck with an old version (2.4.13) of Gnucash.  I
> recently upgraded to version 2.6.7, and everything is fine—except for
> one report.  (I run Gnucash on a Mac under OS X 10.5.5, but I don’t
> think that has anything to do with the issue.)
>
> The report in question shows all the transactions (+ and -) for a
> month, in chronological order, with a running balance.  Here is the
> beginning of a report generated by Gnucash 2.4.13 (I saved the html
> file on my hard drive), column headings and the first transaction:
> Date
> Description
> Transfer
> Deposit
> Withdrawal
> Balance
> 07/06/2015
> Check 1302 (details omitted)
> Expenses:Check
>
> $118.23 <gnc-register:split-guid=d372c061e18e55b63e9516bdeab75633%23>	
> $13,536.49 <gnc-register:split-guid=d372c061e18e55b63e9516bdeab75633%23>
>
> (I apologize if the columns don’t line up.)  The amount in the
> rightmost column is the checkbook balance after the transaction.  And
> here is the beginning of the same report (for a later month) generated
> by Gnucash 2.6.7:
>
> Date
> Description
> Transfer
> Deposit
> Withdrawal
> Balance
> 08/06/2015
> Check 1303 (details omitted)
> Expenses:Check
>
> $4,036.00 <gnc-register:split-guid=1fcf319a36c92431d5e149e36bd67fbc%23>	
> -$4,036.00 <gnc-register:split-guid=1fcf319a36c92431d5e149e36bd67fbc%23>
> While the earlier report shows the checkbook balance after the
> transaction in the rightmost column, the later report doesn’t.  It
> shows the result of applying the transaction to a zero initial
> balance.  (What’s more, I still have the old report in a tab in
> Gnucash.  Instead of showing the checkbook balance after the
> transaction, as it did before, now the rightmost column of the old
> report shows the result of applying the transaction to a zero balance.
> I understand that Gnucash re-generates reports each time it starts
> up—which means now old reports have the same problem as new ones.)
>
> I’m obviously not a “power user” of Gnucash, but I’ll describe how I
> created the report.  In the Gnucash tab that shows, in effect, the
> checkbook register (Assets:Current Assets:MyAccount), I choose Filter
> By… in the View menu.  On the Date tab I choose Select Range/Choose
> Date, and enter the beginning and ending dates for the period I want.
> Then I choose Account Report from the Reports menu.  I eliminate two
> columns I’m not interested in (Num and Memo), and there’s the report,
> showing the transactions for the selected period.
>
> As well as I can remember, that’s how I did it when I was running
> Gnucash 2.4.13.  Can someone tell me what I need to do to have the
> “Balance” column show the running balance from the checkbook register,
> rather than what it shows now?

Is this ia Custom Report (that you wrote?) or is this one of the GnuCash
reports?  If the latter, which report?

Thanks,

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-derek
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