[GNC] Clarification of Total (Period) column

[Kalpesh Patel]

You are absolutely correct on the distinction between Total and
Total(Period) columns and their creative use. My question was a bit about
whether Total (period) column supposed to take configurable period or is it
fixed for current year.

This stems from worry that if fiscal year that doesn't correspond to that
"fixed" coded period, which is likely to be true for businesses, then how do
you deal with that situation.

My thinking is in line with Adrien as here which still would by default
would permit to use it in the fashion you mentioned.  


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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.
> 



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