How to show the net of two accounts?

Luke Rogers lhrogers at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 21:17:19 EST 2016


Yeah, that sort of works. I can hover the mouse over the net worth bar and
get the sum of the two accounts. Thanks!

I don't know why I can't find the simple report that I found last year,
just giving the three numbers.


Thanks,

Luke


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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 6:07 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:40 PM, David Carlson <
> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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....
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>> David C
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>> 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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>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Luke Rogers
>>> Elijah Radio
>>> Birmingham's *best*
>>> WSJL 88.1 FM
>>> Christian talk radio
>>>
>>> Listen online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>>> www.WSJLradio.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
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>>>> 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>>>>> www.WSJLradio.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>> >> Christian
>>>>> >> talk radio
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Listen online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>>>>> >> www.WSJLradio.com
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