[GNC] Transaction Report
Derek Atkins
derek at ihtfp.com
Thu Dec 8 19:56:18 EST 2022
HI,
On Thu, December 8, 2022 7:32 pm, rovero at comcast.net wrote:
> Hope this explains it better
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> There are two accounts in the transaction report
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> Expense Type A/Payable
An A/Payable account is not an expense. It is a liability.
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> Income Type Bank
Similarly, a Bank account is not an income.
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> In the expense account register transactions show as a positive number in
> the payment/debit column and the balance column is a negative number that
> augments negative as transaction are added.
It sounds like your accounts are not set up correctly.
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> In the Income account register transactions show as a positive number in
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> deposit/debit column and the balance column is a positive number that
> augments positive as transaction are added.
Yes, because it's not Income, it is a Bank that you "labeled" Income. And
yes, in a Bank account, a debit increases the account value/total.
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> The report is a simple one that shows all expense transactions form the
> Expense Account as a debit/payment negative dollar amount and all
> transactions from the Income Account as a debit/deposit positive dollar
> amount. So in the end my grand total should be the negative sum of all
> transactions in the Expense account minus the sum of all positive
> transaction in the income account.
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> Again, in ver 2.6.6 I get the desired results. In ver 4.1.2 the expense
> account Totals show as a positive number so Instead of subtracting expense
> from income they add together in the grand total.ie.
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> Ver 2.6.1 Expense Total ($-1200) Income Total $2400 Grand total
> $1200
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> Ver 4.1.2 Expense Total $1200 Income Total $2400 Grand
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> $3600
You might want to check the value of your "reverse sign" preference.
I suspect it's not the same.
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> Thanks
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> Joe
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-derek
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