[GNC] Some questions about the Account Summary Report

[Derek Atkins]

HI,

On Thu, August 31, 2023 7:04 am, Chris Green wrote:
> I have just started using the Account Summary Report as an easy way to
> give an overview of the church finances to the PCC members.
>
> There's a couple of things I can't quite understand though, especially
> about the alignment of the columns and the values that appear in them.
>
> The following depends on fixed width fonts to show correctly.
>
> I see, for example. at the top of the report:-
>
>
>
>
> Account Code            Account title                           Balance
>
>                 Assets                                            �0.00
>                    Current Assets                       �0.00
>                       Lloyds               �9,999.60
>
>
>                 Income                                            �0.00
>                    Collections                      �1,111.11
>                    Fees                             �2,222.22
>                    ...                                 ......
>
>
>
> Why is the amount for 'Lloyds' further left than the other amounts? Is
> it simply because it's a lower level sub-account?

Yes.

> What is the meaning of the �0.00 against Assets, Income, etc.  One
> would have expected that the value against Income would be the total
> of all the Income sub-accounts.
>
> Have I got something wrongly configured?

By default it shows the actual account balance, not the rolled-up balance.
There MAY be a report option to roll up balances.

> Chris Green

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-derek

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