[GNC] Negative assets!

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Thu Sep 6 04:55:49 EDT 2018


Op donderdag 6 september 2018 10:47:56 CEST schreef Muhammad Bashir Al-Noimi:
>    On 09/06/2018 05:37 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>    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.
> 
>    I did that, I couldn't find any negative transactions (only a tiny one
>    which I already know it). But I noticed most transactions don't reflect
>    any balance while others did, does this related to my problem?
> 
>    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?
> 
>    The discrepancy is big because when I calculate all my assets manually
>    (multi-currencies) they did match the sub-accounts.
> 
>    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.
> 
>    When I disabled "Placeholder" feature for "Current Assets" and "Assets"
>    I found both of them are empty.
>    THIS IS REALLY STRANGE I DID NOT FACE ANY PROBLEM WITH GNC BEFORE
>    ALTHOUGH I USE IT SINCE YEARS AGO
>    Thanks a lot John for the patience.

Most transactions not showing a balance is odd.
Have you tried to run check & repair on your assets account and its children ?

Geert




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