[GNC] Clarification of Total (Period) column

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I think one shows total as of today and the other shows total for today and beyond…

This distinction helps me and I don’t think it’s a bug. For my use case, I setup any future known income or future tax payments till the end of my tax year., by entering all those future transactions at the beginning of the year itself. 

So if my current balance is 100, that’s shown in Total (Period) column. But in the register I have future dated entries for all the interest incomes due during the year as well as any taxes owed by year end. Let’s say the future income is 20 and future tax liability is 5, then my total column will show -

100+20~5 = 115.

This distinction tells me how much I have at my disposal to spend till end of year. 

I think the budget report can be used to do something similar, but this is easy enough for me to track and understand. 

Cheers. 

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> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 15:28:57 -0600
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Clarification of Total (Period) column
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> Hmmm... I'm seeing the same thing.
> 
> It appears to default to 'this year' regardless of the setting.
> 
> I'd call that a bug.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 1/3/23 3:14 PM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> > I have added a column called ?Total (Period)? in the accounts view page but
> > I am not sure what that period is? I made changes to it in the ?Edit ?
> > Preference ? Accounting Period? but didn?t change the value there so I don?t
> > think the ?period? denoted is in anyway reflected from there. I am curious
> > to know what that ?period? entails, if that is something changeable and if
> > so where.
>