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

[David Carlson]

Thanks for the clarification. Is there a good place in the documentation
for this tidbit?

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:17 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Yes, rolling/running balance.  However, while there is a balance column
> being displayed, it might not show the *correct* balance because each
> split shown has a precomputed balance for the actual account it is tied
> to.  This balance is recomputed whenever a split in the account is
> modified.  However, it is NOT computed in real-time for display.
>
> So when you do a "Open Subaccounts" view, it is not recomputing the
> balance including everything, but rather it is still showing the
> pre-computed balance of the split's account balance for that split.
>
> It *MAY* look correct at some points in time, but in general, no, it is
> not.
>
> > David Carlson
>
> -derek
>
> > 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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David Carlson