[GNC] Some questions about reports

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 09:54:35PM +0800, Christopher Lam wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, 9:43 pm Chris Green, <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 09:24:20AM -0400, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> > > On 4/6/2022 8:15 AM, Chris Green wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > The auditor wants a report which looks pretty much like the profit and
> > > > loss report but with the underlying bank account balances at the
> > bottom.
> > > > Is there any simple way to get this?  ... or if getting it all on one
> > > > report isn't easy (I'm not going to learn Scheme just to do this!)
> > > > then is there a report which will provide the basic bank account
> > > > balances, e.g.:-
> > > >
> > > >      Bank account at start of year               xxxx.xx
> > > >      Less excess of expenses over income         yyyy.yy
> > > >
> > > >      Bank account at 31st December YYYY          zzzz.zz
> > >
> > > Yes, I have seen this format presented (and the person who took over as
> > > Treasurer with one of my organizations does this -- also showing quarters
> > > side by side)
> >
> 
> The closest you'll get to this is by using the transaction report, select
> the bank accounts, enable display Running balance. This will show "balance
> b/f" in the account name header. The last split in the account section will
> show the Running balance, aka "balance c/f"
> 
I can't find anything like "display Running balance", is this a recent
addition?  I'm running GnuCash 4.4.

Also won't this show all the transactions going in/out of the bank
account?  I just want the start and end balances.

-- 
Chris Green