[GNC] General Ledger amounts missing

[Geert Janssens]

If I remember correctly the General ledger only shows the last 30 days of transactions. You 
can use Edit->Filter by... to change that.

Regards,

Geert

Op vrijdag 5 november 2021 16:22:14 CET schreef 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > 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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> >> 
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> >> 
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on
> >> behalf of sydnorbilling at bellsouth.net <sydnorbilling at bellsouth.net>
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 7:05 PM
> >> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> 
> >>