gnucash-user Digest, Vol 179, Issue 59

[Adrien Monteleone]

The 1899 date seems to make me think that has something to do with a setting in your OS concerning how to interpret 2-year dates. (I don’t think Gnucash has this option, it might be hard coded)

Try running the report again and make sure to enter the full 4-digit date and not just ’16’. Also, test with 12/30/2016 and 01/01/2017 and see if it does the same thing or only on exactly 12/31/2016. You might have some corrupt data. That might even be the source date of the imbalance.

I just entered those two dates in the same report and it worked fine, so this wouldn’t be a generic bug to the app, though it might be a bug for a certain platform. (I’m on macOS 10.13 at the moment)

Since you’ve narrowed down to a few weeks, I’d just take a look at the General Ledger which contains all transactions from all accounts. Click on View > Filter By… and set your date range. (maybe even a day before and after just to be thorough) Also be sure to check all boxes on the Status tab in the Filter options. You want to see all transactions for that date range. Then just look over them and see if anything looks out of place. In particular, look for either the amount you are out of balance by or half that amount if the variance is an even number. (meaning you have an entry that is entered in reverse debit/credit, or entirely duplicated)

For myself, I think I want to tackle one other area first. I recall doing some re-organization and I went through a series of unposting paid invoices and reposting them, causing my lot assignments to get out of whack. I know I have some open lots that shouldn’t be there and many that are applied to the wrong documents. I’ll clean that up first, then re-run the trial balance and see if that does the trick. I’m not sure where the Trial-Balance report is pulling its numbers from, but it won’t hurt to perform that cleanup anyway.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 15, 2018, at 2:35 PM, Elmar <etschme at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 02/15/2018 02:28 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:27:17 -0600
>> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com>
>> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: trial balance - how to find mismatch question
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>> Elmar,
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>> Reduce your ending date so the range is half of what it was. Re-run the report. Is it s[t]ill out of balance? Keep doing this till you get a balance, then set that ending date to a new start date, and start working forwards till you get out of balance again. This will help you narrow down where on the calendar the error occurred.
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>> Regards,
>> Adrien
> OK - did that and ran into something VERY strange.  Everything stayed in balance up to 07/12/2016.  Setting that as the start date and 12/31/2016 as the end date, as soon as I hit "apply", QC overwrites the end date with - get this - 02/27/1899 !!!  This of course produces nonsense.  One day later (01/01/2017) works fine and shows the imbalance.  So, have I 1) found a bug, and 2) given I have narrowed the date range to a few weeks, what report should I run to find the weirdness? - Elmar
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