[GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

[Adrien Monteleone]

I'm not sure exactly how those numbers are calculated and I've never 
relied on them.

Perhaps a Balance Sheet would work better. You'd only need to know the 
headline numbers:

Total Assets
Total Liabilities
Total Equity

(perhaps, Retained Earnings/Losses, if you like, though that is part of 
the Equity section)

Regards,
Adrien

On 7/13/23 6:33 AM, Neil Campbell wrote:
> I help a friend with their monthly accounting. She has GNUCash installed on a PC. I have GNUCash installed on a Mac mini M1 computer. She does the input. I do the month end transactions and check her input. So we send GNUCash data files backwards and forwards. The way I identify the file I have sent her is to give her the Summary Box values. She must agree this before starting her new month’s input.
> 
> This worked well until, for no apparent reason, these figures don’t match any more.
> My Mac mini M1 shows:
> Net Assets £9,115.89    Profits £3,075.18
> Using the same file that I emailed her, her PC Shows:
> Net Assets £9,115.89    Profits £0.00
> 
> So I realised that there must be a Preference not set by her.
> 
> I downloaded and installed GNUCash on my wife’s PC to see how I could correct the error. I changed the Setting Accounting period dates to the correct ones. So, on my wife’s PC I have:
> Net Assets £9,115.89    Profits £8,803.24
> It’s still not right and the Profit figure is now in red.
> 
> I now have 3 different Profit Figures, but I cannot find any place on the Windows version to check why there are these differences, because I don’t know where this Profit figure comes from. The correct figures are the ones on my Mac mini M1 above.
> 
> I must be missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated.