[GNC] Profit & Retained Earning don't match

[David Carlson]

I can't check right now but I think there is an enhancement request to show
in a printable form all the settings for a given report.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022, 3:57 PM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> HI,
>
> On Fri, February 25, 2022 4:49 pm, Stan Brown wrote:
> >
> > On 2022-02-25 13:14, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> For example, if you ran the report, then added an account, that new
> >> account would not be included by default in the report if you refresh
> >> it.
> >> You need to manually add the new account into the report.
> >>
> >> This also applies to saved reports.
> >
> > Wow -- I did not know this, but it explains why my balance sheet and
> > income statement sometimes miss accounts. (With the income statement in
> > particular, I run it only at the end of the year, so any accounts could
> > have been added almost a whole year ago, and I wouldn't remember when I
> > added them.)
> >
> > I select accounts for my saved reports in what seems like a sensible
> > way: all Income And Expense accounts for the income statement, and all
> > Assets, Liabilities, and Equities for the balance sheet.
> >
> > I don't know how hard this would be to do, but it would be nice if GC
> > would keep track in a saved report of how accounts were selected. If the
> > selection was by a hierarchy rather than individual accounts, GC could
> > then automatically include all accounts within that hierarchy when
> > running the saved report.
>
> Yeah, sorry -- that's not how it works.  It honestly doesn't know anything
> about "accounts" per se, let along hierachies.  It just knows "Object
> GUIDs".
>
> The good news is that it's only a few clicks to get "all accounts" added.
>
> But yeah, if you save a report, or have a report "open", it wont learn
> about new accounts.
>
> This has been the case since, oh... 2003?  2005?  Something like that.
>
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> -derek
>
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