[GNC] Negative assets!

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 5, 2018, at 5:51 PM, Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi <mbnoimi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 09/06/2018 03:25 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>> That’s Assets:Current Assets on the Accounts page, right? Not an entry in the summary bar at the bottom of the page?
> YES; It's an account in Accounts tree defined as a placeholder.
> 
>> Might you have hidden accounts with negative balances?
> I'm pretty sure all the sub accounts in Assets are in positive values.

Well, make completely sure. With the accounts page open, select View>Filter By... and make sure that all of the account types are selected on the “Account Type" tab and that Show hidden accounts is selected on the “Other” tab. There’s another way to get there as well: You can select Current Assets and select Edit>Open Subaccounts, which will open a register showing all of the transactions from Current Assets and all of its sub accounts in the normal order. That might help you see the transactions that drive it to a negative balance.

How much is the discrepancy? IOW, if you add up all of the (positive) totals showing in the first-level sub accounts and then add the opposite of the (negative) total showing in Current Assets, what’s the difference?

Are there any transactions in Current Assets? Being a placeholder prevents you from adding transactions from the register, but there are other ways that transactions can get into it, including being transferred there when you delete a sub-account. Double clicking on it won’t work because it’s a placeholder so you have to use Edit>Open Account or pick Open from the context menu when Current Assets is selected.

Regards,
John Ralls