[GNC] Profit & Retained Earning don't match

[D.]

Derek, 

Some of the standard reports automatically update the account selection when they are invoked. See, for example, the Advanced Portfolio report, which automatically selects new commodity accounts each time it is run. 

My recollection was that standard reports based on a class of accounts (assets, liabilities) will recompile the account list each time. 

It would seem useful to extend this functionality to saved reports as well...

David T.


-------- Original Message --------
From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Sent: Fri Feb 25 16:56:36 EST 2022
To: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Profit & Retained Earning don't match

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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