[GNC] The man who saw everything twice....

[Christopher Lam]

> Why do Gnucash balance sheets print account and subaccount totals twice:
once at the beginning of each such account and again at the end?

Because you'd selected Subtotal on both options as you described. This is a
long-standing wart/bug because it's nonsensical to allow subtotals to be
shown both before and after each account+subaccounts. And it's impossible
to fix this behaviour without angering many long term users. The "next-gen"
balance sheet is in the experimental reports menu; the latter will never
show subtotals twice.


On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, 11:04 pm Peter S. Shenkin, <shenkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please tell me where this option is.
>
> I already said that I didn't see an option for this. I looked before
> posting and just looked again. I don't see anything like what you
> mentioned. I believe I have been through all the Options and in fact I got
> as far as I did by specifying several. For example, I see the following
> options in Display that pertain to the account balances:
>
>    - Parent account balances
>       - Subtotal (I have this selected)
>       - Account Balance
>       - Do not show
>    - Parent account subtotals
>       - Show subtotals (I have this selected)
>       - Do not show
>       - Text book style (experimental)
>
> It's not impossible that I am missing it somewhere, but if so, please tell
> me where to look.
>
> I also looked in Preferences > Reports, but I see nothing relevant there
> either.
>
> -P.
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:28 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
> stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > On 1/24/2021 12:26 AM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote:
> > > Gnucash 4.3 on a mac.
> > >
> > > Why do Gnucash balance sheets print account and subaccount totals
> twice:
> > > once at the beginning of each such account and again at the end?
> > >
> > > It adds a large number of extra lines and no new information, and
> > > balance-sheet examples from (the few) accounting books on my shelf do
> not
> > > do this.
> > >
> > > I find this very annoying and cannot find an option to turn this off.
> Is
> > > there a hidden way? Or even an obvious way that I'm just missing?
> > >
> > Edit => Report Options
> >
> > One of the things you get to choose is how you see "subtotals" -----
> > none, before, after, or both. Sounds like you are doing both. Just turn
> > off the one you don't want and keep the one you do want. My personal
> > preference is "after" so that's what I specify.
> >
> > I will suggest again, anybody new to gnucash should spend a little time
> > investigating the options available to each report used. You don;t have
> > to accept the defaults.
> >
> > Michael D Novack
> >
> >
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