[GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE

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Shug,

I would ask you to tell us what error message you have received, since I don't usually see any error messages when I run this report. (I do have trouble getting this report to balance, however).

However, David has made useful advice regarding tracking transaction gain or loss; I would add that in Gnucash, a commodity is a broadly defined concept, and covers anything you have that is not counted in your default currency. 

In other words, stocks, mutual funds, as well as accounts denominated in another currency will all fall into this category, and any time you have a transaction involving thread accounts, you will need to account for gain or loss hidden in the conversion.

David T

On July 25, 2018, at 1:52 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

I assume that you mean the debits do not equal the credits rather than that
GnuCash failed to generate the report.

This is commonly the result of selling a commodity for a different price
than what was originally paid without correctly accounting for the profit
or loss.  One technique to close in on a transaction contributing to the
difference is to include a shorter time period in the report until the
values do balance.  Once the date is determined, look for a commodity
transaction that is not balanced by a profit or loss.

David C

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 12:20 PM, H Millar MacDonald OBE <
spahonsecobe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I¹ve just become involved with GnuCash 3.2 and set up my first accounts for
> our club.   It all looks okay except  and will provide a profit and loss
> report on Income and Expenditure  which is good.  However, when I try to
> get
> a Trial Balance I get an error message which according to Google seems to
> be
> quite common.  I don¹t know where to start to fix this.  Can anyone offer
> any advice please?  I am an absolute novice at all of this so please be
> patient with my request.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Shug
>
>
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