Confused by "Reverse"

[Adrien Monteleone]

Concerning the General Ledger report, I never run it so I don’t have an answer. Perhaps it has not been updated to account for the preference. (the Budget Report also doesn’t honor the setting)

Did you try the General Journal report? Perhaps it works correctly? (the two are nearly identical save for the extra options in the Ledger version)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 24, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> Using 2.6.18.
> 
> I want credit balances to be positive in liabilities, equities, and
> income, and debit balances to be positive in assets and expenses. I'd
> think this was standard, but I can't find any way to have it in both the
> Assets & Liabilities » Balance Sheet report and the Assets & Liabilities
> » General Ledger report. (The latter appears on a tab called Transaction
> Report.)
> 
> In Edit » Preferences » Accounts, I set "Reverse Balanced Accounts" to
> None, but then all my credit accounts we backwards in the Balance Sheet.
> (Exception: Retained Earnings is not backwards.) There's no "Reverse"
> option in Edit » Report Options, so I figure I must be misunderstanding
> the setting in Edit » Preferences » Accounts, and change it to Credit
> Accounts. That fixes the Balance Sheet, but now the amounts are
> backwards in credit accounts in the General Ledger report (though the
> totals of credit accounts in that report are not backwards). There's no
> reversing option for that report either.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Stan Brown
> Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://BrownMath.com
> http://OakRoadSystems.com
> 
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