[GNC] [GNC-dev] Account Balance does not match transaction history

[John Ralls]

Please copy the list on all replies. Since you didn't I've re-directed this to gnucash-user where it belongs.

If Income:Sales has sub accounts with transactions then the total shown on the Accounts Page will sum the balances of Income:Sales and all of its sub accounts. In most cases when you are categorizing things with sub accounts it's better to make the parent a placeholder account and put no transactions in it so that it's easy to see on the Accounts Page or a Balance Sheet report that the balances of the sub accounts sum up to the amount in the parent.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 4:58 PM, David Tinoco <davetinoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I apologize -- I did not realize that I posted to the dev mailing
> list. I clicked a link from the website.
> 
> Should I re-ask there?
> 
> All subaccounts are in the same currency.
> 
> I am thinking the only thing that could be causing this is that I have
> some transactions going to Income:Sales and others to subaccounts. So
> perhaps it is double adding them?
> 
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 7:52 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 2, 2019, at 3:52 PM, David Tinoco <davetinoco at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I just noticed my Income::Sales account doesn't match the transactions.
>>> 
>>> The balance says: $9,001.31 in the Chart of Accounts but when you open
>>> the account, the total shows $4,356.31.
>>> 
>>> I tried the "Check and Repair all" option by right clicking it and
>>> selecting that, but it still shows this amount. Is there a reason this
>>> would happen? Do I have a corrupt file?
>> 
>> This is a user-list question. Next time please ask in gnucash-user, not here.
>> 
>> A corrupt file seems unlikely. Both totals should be just adding up the same list of splits.
>> 
>> Does the Income:Sales account have sub accounts? Are all of your accounts in the same currency?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>>