[GNC] asset discrepancy in change of year

[John Ralls]

Andrea,

The most likely reason is that you failed to book a capital gain/loss from a stock sale or a currency exchange.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 27, 2021, at 9:39 AM, Andrea Borgia <andrea at borgia.bo.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> 
> As previously mentioned, each year I close the current gnucash book and open a new one.
> 
> For 2020: "Initial capital of 2020" = "Asset of 2019"  - "Expenses of 2019"  + "Income of 2019" (there are no liabilities)
> 
> 
> For 2021 things are not right, apparently:
> 
> * "assets of 2020"  - "Expenses of 2020" + "Income of 2020" ends in ...418,08
> 
> * the sum of all assets (cash, bank account, paypal, prepaid card, you name it...) ends in ...440,28
> 
> 
> I can't find the error: all income / expense accounts in 2020 have been closed to a "results" account so it's pretty easy to see they're all zero and the "results" account goes to "capital".
> 
> Each individual asset has been cross-checked and marked "OK" in the new book's "Capital" account where I recorded the opening balances. Since those are verifiable values not depending on income / expenses, I'm inclined to believe this is the true value for capital at end of 2020.
> 
> 
> How do I go about fixing this? If my reasoning is correct, the fault must lay somewhere in the 2020 book, right?
> 
> By the way, even before the recent thread with David on multiple currencies I had exactly the same mismatch and "repair" finds no issues in either book,
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrea.
> 
> 
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