How to show the net of two accounts?

[David Carlson]

There was an additional delay while my wife used the laptop.  I finally got
it back and found that the particular asset account I chose had a value of
$10.39 and the liability account had a value of $32.97 as reported in the
table of the Net Worth report and that somehow added up to a net worth of
+$43.36 instead of -$22.58 as I expected.  It seems that I happened to
choose a liability account that had a negative liability balance, ie a
positive balance.  Thus the numbers in the table are correct.

However, the bars for the (positive) liability extended below the 0 value
so the chart made them appear correct to my eyes.  Maybe the chart is
supposed to make normal liabilities display above the 0 value, but that
seems backwards to me.  Perhaps others can comment on that.

David C












On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:40 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh.  I am now trying the Net Worth barchart to see if it can be reduced to
> show net of assets plus liabilities.  My file is huge, so it is taking a
> while....
>
> David C
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Luke Rogers <lhrogers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> David,
>> Thanks for the reply. The problem with the Balance Sheet is that at the
>> bottom it shows the sum of Liabilities and Equity, not Liabilities and
>> Assets. If I could change that, it would be perfect. I can't find a way to
>> change it, though.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Luke
>>
>>
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>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:59 AM, David Carlson <
>> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Luke,
>>> Try again.  The Balance report will show the individual account balances
>>> and their sum if they are both asset accounts or liability accounts.
>>> Otherwise the total will be at the bottom.  You may need to fiddle with
>>> other settings like date besides selecting the accounts.
>>>
>>> David C
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Luke Rogers <lhrogers at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the reply. (I found it in my Spam folder.)
>>>>
>>>> However, this didn't quite do it. When I tried what Macho suggested I
>>>> got a
>>>> page that showed the correct amounts for the two accounts, but it didn't
>>>> sum the two. Instead, it just gave the total for the liability account
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>> Any further suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Luke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>> Luke Rogers
>>>> Elijah Radio
>>>> Birmingham's *best*
>>>> WSJL 88.1 FM
>>>> Christian
>>>> talk radio
>>>>
>>>> Listen online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Macho Philipovich <macho at resist.ca>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hi Luke,
>>>> >
>>>> > You could go to Reports » Assets & Liabilities » Balance sheet » Edit
>>>> > report options [gear icon in the toolbar] » In the Accounts tab,
>>>> select the
>>>> > two accounts you want to compare » Ok.
>>>> >
>>>> > I hope that helps!
>>>> >
>>>> > Macho
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On 2016-01-23 09:11 PM, Luke Rogers wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> I've searched for an hour, but I can't find how to show the net of
>>>> two
>>>> >> accounts, an asset and a liability.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Help, please?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>> >> Luke Rogers
>>>> >> Elijah Radio
>>>> >> Birmingham's *best*
>>>> >> WSJL 88.1 FM
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>>>> >> talk radio
>>>> >>
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