Show current accounts

[Maf. King]

On Tuesday, 6 December 2016 00:22:13 GMT scott223 wrote:
> Dear community,
> 
> I have been using gnucash for a few months now and i really like the
> application, thank you for all the hard work you put in there.
> 
> One thing that i cannot figure out is the following. I have a nice structure
> with accounts and i regularly update with past transactions. More recently,
> i have also started to add more and more future transactions (like
> inserting all my mortgage payments etc). However, when i now look at the
> accounts overview it takes in the balance of all past *and* future
> transactions. for example, my mortgage shows zero (since i put in all
> transactions already) but i still have a long way to go :)
> 
> To summarize: how can i show the account balance of today in the accounts
> overview? i know i can run a report but i would prefer to see the status in
> the accounts overview.
> 
> many thanks and best regards,
> Scott

Hi Scott,

Are you talking about the Chart-of-Accounts view (the "tree")?

Do you see a downward arrow to the extreme right of the columns heading bar?  
Click than and then select "Present" -  that will add a column showing the 
balance as of today for all accounts.

HTH,
Maf.