[GNC] Moving from Sage Accounting and would like to keep sub-account totals viewable

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 10:03:27 EST 2019


Derek,

If what you call a rolling balance is what I call a running balance,  then
I think that the account register view will show that when it is sorted in
chronological order.  In fact, as others have already noted, you can see
that in your top level accounts.  Where you won't see it is in mixed
commodity/mixed currency cases such as stock brokerage accounts or other
mixed currency accounts. For those cases it is necessary to use a report
that can evaluate appropriate exchange rates.

David Carlson


On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 8:22 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Rick,
>
> Richard Danielson <rdan217 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Re the subtotals issue, I used to have a number of subtotals
> > (e.g. groceries, snacks and restaurants in the food category) which
> > showed up in income accounts.  That is what I can't figure out in GC.
> > I can make accounts sub-accounts for heading accounts, and get the
> > totals for the sub-accounts to show in the income statement, but can't
> > get the program to sum the sub-accounts into the heading accounts.
>
> Note that a parent account will only roll up the balance in sub-accounts
> in the CoA or Reports.  If you *open* the parent account then it wont
> show the transactions (or balances) from the sub-accounts.  It is
> unclear from your question how/where you are trying to view the
> rolled-up balances.
>
> There is an option to "Open Subaccounts", which will merge all the
> transactions from the subaccounts, but it wont show a rolling balance.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> > Rick
>
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> -derek
>
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