[GNC] General Ledger amounts missing

[Sharon Sydnor]

Gyle, yes thank you I considered that and did set the correct start and end dates and also thought to look to the PREFERENCES of the entire program and there is a place there to also set the start and end dates and select if they are RELATIVE or ABSOLUTE, and I chose the latter.  I’ll change to relative and see if it makes a difference although I don’t understand why it would.  Also since I do my books “at one sitting” and block out a period of time and work straight through from Jan to Dec of usually the former year, I change the date and time on the entire computer as well,  setting it back to Dec 31 of the required year.  
Sharon 

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> On Nov 4, 2021, at 10:17 PM, Adrian Yong <adrianyong.88park at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have raised this detail before...
> 
> It was explained to me that the normal General Ledger which classified Assets, Liabilities, and Proprietorship with their total amounts so that the auditor can be sure that A = L + P is observed but GNUCash works on a double entry system so A = L + P will always be observed. However, sometimes an entry may be a negative Asset instead of being a positive Liability and this is not so easily picked up without a normal General Ledger...
> 
> I have downloaded the General Ledger or Transaction Report and created my normal GL using Excel.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrian
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:23 AM Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com> wrote:
>> Sharon, not sure, but the simple answer seems to be that under "edit report options" you didn't change the start and end dates.  The reports default to the current accounting period and you need the start and end of the year.  Hope this helps.
>> 
>> 
>> Thank You,
>> Gyle McCollam
>> 
>> Gyle McCollam
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>> Subject: [GNC] General Ledger amounts missing
>> 
>> Relative newbie, even though using gnucash for four years, but only use it
>> once a year to prepare for tax filing and by the next time filing comes
>> around the following year I forget a lot of how it worked.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In trying to print out a General Ledger report, after selecting reports and
>> General Ledger under Assets & Liabilities, then going to options and
>> selecting the obvious under GENERAL, then DISPLAY, and ACCOUNTS when I click
>> OK, the report that comes up has NO AMOUNTS on it?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> What simple item am I missing?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sharon
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