Balance Sheet Problems

[David T.]

Pete,

Were you in fact looking at the Imbalance account in Transaction Journal view mode? Perhaps the transactions you were looking at didn’t have Imbalance as the primary split, but there has to be an Imbalance split somewhere in each transaction. You see, in my ten years of using GnuCash, one of the few things I can say with confidence is that I have never seen a transaction appear in a register without having a split assigned to that account. That’s rather fundamental to the software, and someone would have reported it before now.

You say you have deleted the “imbalance entries and all seems fine.” I am glad to hear it. 

The thing is, when you deleted the imbalance entries, you actually deleted the entire transaction to which the imbalance splits were assigned (if this terminology is unclear to you, please consult the opening chapters of the Guide, which explain this in some detail), and so whatever else was in those transactions has now been deleted. Should you subsequently find that your accounts are no longer balancing, then this is the likely reason why.

By chance, have you got a backup from before you deleted these? I ask because I know how difficult it can be to recreate missing data if you find later on that you needed to fix the problem in another way. 

Cheers,
David

> On Dec 17, 2016, at 10:19 PM, csmbtreasurer <treasurer at celticsociety.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions.  I originally found the Imbalance transactions by
> clicking the Imbalance account in my balance sheet which opens the Imbalance
> account.  The problem is that the Imbalance amount isn't listed in the
> source transactions.  For example, on of the Imbalance account entries is
> for a Credit Card purchase.  When I open the transaction split in the Credit
> Card account, everything is in balance and there is no Imbalance account
> split shown.  
> 
> I finally deleted the Imbalance account entries and all seems fine now. 
> This seems like a bug to me, is there a place to report bugs?
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
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