[GNC] Questions

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 5/6/2019 8:22 AM, Stephen C. Camidge wrote:

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> 3 - G/L is General Ledger
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Ah..... being misled by the name of the report.

This is a situation where useful to understand how traditional pen and 
ink on paper bookkeeping worked. You FIRST entered transactions in 
chronological order into a "book" called the Journal. These entries were 
then "posted" to the Ledger (to the ledger accounts affected).

Gnucash allows us to enter the transactions beginning in any of the 
affected ledger accounts. We don't even see something resembling a 
journal entry unless entering a "split transaction". In other words, the 
journal is virtual.

But gnucash CAN show you the journal if you ask it to. As a report. Your 
problem is with your expectation of what you are looking at when you ask 
gnucash to give you a G/L or General Journal report.

Michael D Novack