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

[Adrien Monteleone]

> On Nov 18, 2019 w47d322, at 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.

Derek,

My understanding was the OP wanted to roll-up balances on the Income Statement/P&L as subtotal lines on the report. Considering the reply of the OP that my advice on the report options did the trick, I’d think my guess was correct.

Regards,
Adrien