[GNC] Placeholder accounts not totaling on reports

[Michael or Penny Novack]

Instead of addressing your problem/question in terms of a specific 
answer, I strongly suggest you (or any new gnucash user) EXPLORE all the 
options available to you for every report you intend to use. Things like 
show totals before or after (or both) are OPTIONS.

Gnucash is a little strange in that you don't select options first. 
Instead you run the report "default" and the use edit=>report options to 
bring up the options menu(s). You then change whatever you want to 
change and then "apply" these changes. For example, an Income Statement 
<<aka Statement of Revenues and Expenses aka P & L >> is ALWAYS being 
run for specific start and end dates so you'll want to set those even if 
otherwise happy with defaults. But like I said, how you want subtotaling 
also options.

So for each of the reports you intend to use, try out all your options 
until you find the combination right for you.

Michael D Novack



On 12/19/2024 7:05 AM, Blake McBride via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using GnuCash 5.10. This is my initial effort to move to GnuCash. I entered all of my opening balances against the Opening Balances account as is normal. When I look at my Accounts, I see all of the correct numbers, and I see the totals of the sub-accounts in the parent placeholder accounts as expected. Great.
>
> I set the reporting period to last year (1/1/23 - 12/31/23).
>
> When I run the Income Statement or the Balance Sheet reports, I am seeing the following problems.
>
> It shows the detail current asset accounts correctly, but the parent Current Assets placeholder shows zero.
>
> The parent of Current Assets (Assets) shows zero too.
>
> However, at the end of the Assets section, Total Assets is correct.
>
> The same reporting error is repeated for Liabilities, Equity, Expenses, etc.
>
> The parent placeholder accounts show correctly on the Accounts tab of GnuCash but are always zero on the Balance Sheet and Income Statement reports.
>
> Is there any way to fix this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Blake McBride