[GNC] Zeros in Balance sheet

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 6/20/2024 10:03 AM, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> Fedora Linux 37
> GnuCash 4.14
>
> Doing  Reports: Assets&Liabilities: Balance Sheet
> In the Options: Display:
> I uncheck Include accounts with zero total balances
> I check Omit zero balance figures
>
> If I take the default of 3 Levels of subaccounts
> the report has lots of lines with zero amounts.
>
> If I change the Levels of subaccounts to All,
> then the zero entries go away.
>
> Seems wrong.

I'm not so sure wrong. Let me ask you a question

These accounts that appear (even though showing zero) at a small number 
of levels but that disappear then the nesting level is increased enough 
to expand the entire tree ........ Do they have children that are not 
appearing because of level truncation.

Consider THIS situation << where truncation is set so that only Account 
X shows >>

          Account X                        (balance 0)

                 Account Y                   (balance debit  10)

                 Account Z                   (balance credit 10)

In other words, I might want to see an account whose balance is zero IF 
it has children  (being truncated) with non-zero balances. I'd at least 
want to think about it some  before deciding show vs don't show.    And 
possibly any situation where the children COULD BE non-zero. In other 
words, is the "exclude zero" not working as you expect because  because 
truncation of levels means the report can no longer "see" if below there 
all zero or not.

Michael D Novack