Trial Balance

[Stefan Söffing]

I'm not using it regularly, but for me it turned out to be useful in
tracking issues with multi-currency transactions...

- Stefan

Am 22.12.2016 um 18:47 schrieb Mike or Penny Novack:
> On 12/22/2016 11:38 AM, Michael via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Thanks Dave for the reply.  It seems to be something with my data. 
>> OK on 2.6.14 but not 2.6.15.  I tried a simple new test account on
>> 2.6.15 and trial balance is as expected.  With my real account data,
>> two columns of numbers are there, but only one sum. I must have
>> something in one column that prevents a sum. Thanks again. Mike
>
> I must admit to being slightly curious. What are people using the
> "Trial Balance" FOR?
>
> Having learned bookkeeping back in the old days of pen and ink on
> paper, I know what I used the trial balance for. Since manually
> "posting" the entries from the "journal" to the "ledger" quite
> possible to have transcribed an number incorrectly, so the ledger
> COULD be out of balance (this a common type of error), so it was then
> "find the error" (has to be between now and the previous Trial Balance).
>
> But "autoposting" software like gnucash will not make this sort of
> error << any unposted portion of a transaction will be in Imbalance,
> for example --- so simply check that Imbalance and Orphan have zero
> balance. >> Anyway, a package like gnucash sort of works in reverse
> with the transactions being entered directly into the ledger and the
> Journal being virtual << you can run a report that would be the
> journal >>
>
> So when are people using gnucash running a Trial Balance and what is
> being done with it?
>
> Michael D Novack
>
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