[GNC] Trial balance

[David T.]

As I understand it, the Trial Balance report is As Of A Date, and therefore cumulative to that date. Not sure why the report includes start and end dates in that circumstance, except to follow settings provided by other reports. 

As for multi currency trial balances, there have been many discussions about the effect of exchange rates on the report, but the trading accounts are supposed to address that. I've never had a trial balance report balance (in 15 years of GnuCash use), but then I've also never turned trading accounts on (because I'm afraid of what it might change in those data).

An opening balance entry is not required; every account begins at some point in time at zero. 

I'm sure others can provide additional insights (and correct my inevitable inaccuracies).

⁣David T. ​

On Jan 8, 2023, 10:14 AM, at 10:14 AM, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> wrote:
>I have run a Transaction report (for all accounts) for just one day in
>the
>past (to find all the transactions on that one day).  It found just one
>transaction where I bought 600 yuan for 99.07 USD (at an ATM in china).
>The grand totals in the report are 0 USD and 0 yuan.
>
>That one transaction has four splits:
>Receive column:
>  Assets:...:$china 600
>  Trading:cash US:ftexx 99.07 Fid. TE MM
>Spend column:
>  Assets:..:Fid. TE MM  99.07 Fed. TE MM
>  Trading:CURRENCY:CNY  600
>
>That transaction is the first one in $china.  There is no Equity
>Opening
>Balance (which would be zero) for $china.
>
>I then ran a Trial Balance report; again for just that one day and all
>accounts.  The two totals at the bottom of the report do not match
>(differ
>by 5.46).  If I change the date to 6 days earlier (again for just one
>day),
>the two totals match.
>
>By one day, I mean both Start date and Date of report are the same.
>
>OS:  Fedora Linux 37
>GnuCash: 4.13
>Trading accounts are on.
>
>Is Trial Balance supposed to work when there is a mixture of
>currencies?
>Is Trial Balance supposed to work for just one day in the past?
>Do all accounts need an Equity Opening Balance?
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