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

[Adrien Monteleone]

David,

GnuCash can show you the balance of a parent account as two different things on reports and in the CoA:

1. Actual balance of the account (sum of debits and credits in that one account)
2. The sum of the balances of each of the child accounts (what Derek called ‘roll-up’)

Running/rolling balances are just the current sum of the account’s debits and credits. (the balance of the account)

GnuCash can also show parent accounts as their actual balance on reports (#1 above) *and* add sub-total lines after the listing of all child accounts. (so you get both options together - this would be useful for when a parent account is *not* a placeholder and has its own transactions)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Nov 18, 2019 w47d322, at 9:03 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>