[GNC] Questions

Stephen C. Camidge scamidge at fastmail.fm
Mon May 6 09:32:17 EDT 2019


I am an accountant and am quite familiar with this information. I just expected to be able to select all transactions for a period in a number of accounts with the General Ledger report.

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Stephen C. Camidge             scamidge at fastmail.fm   (519) 363-3912

On Mon, May 6, 2019, at 9:18 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 5/6/2019 8:22 AM, Stephen C. Camidge wrote:
> 
> >
> > 3 - G/L is General Ledger
> >
> 
> 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
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