[GNC] Getting My Account To Trial Balance

[Adrien Monteleone]

I get that same error. (MacOS High Sierra, GnuCash 3.2)

My suspicion is misconfigured report options, but I’m not familiar with the report enough to know which one(s). I never bother with this report because I don’t use the Close Books function. I also don’t really understand it’s purpose with a perpetual system in light of the existence of the orphan-xxx and imbalance-xxx accounts. If those are both zero, how does one still need to adjust anything before closing books?

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 25, 2018, at 5:49 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That is a bird of a different feather.  Then it will help to know which
> release you are using and what operating system your computer has, because
> the solution may be to switch to a different release or to try some more
> complex debugging if you are up to it.
> 
> Do include gnucash-user at gnucash.org in every reply so other users see the
> comments.
> 
> David C
> 
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 3:13 PM, H M MacDonald OBE <sassunachobe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi David/Richard
>> 
>> The error message is as follows:
>> 
>> *Report error*
>> 
>> *An error occurred while running the report.*
>> 
>> It doesn’t give any clue as to what’s wrong.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Shug
>> 
>> From: D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, 25 July 2018 at 20:33
>> To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>, Hugh MacDonald OBE <
>> spahonsecobe at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] GETTING MY ACCOUNT TO TRIAL BALANCE
>> 
>> 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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