[GNC] Balance sheet totals showing zeros?

[Ken McEvoy]

It's a mystery. I am in Canada, my region setting (in Windows 11) is Canada
(and always has been), but the GnuCash defaults were coming up as US
dollars.

However, everything is set as it should be, which is what matters.

Cheers,
Ken


On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 12:48 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> Ken, GnuCash should, by default, set those preferences to match your
> computer's locale. If you are in Canada, unless you have a good reason
> to use a different one, your OS should be set to Canada as your locale.
> Then these preferences wouldn't be an issue.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> On 6/29/24 11:22 AM, Ken McEvoy wrote:
> > Ultimately, it did turn out to be a currency issue. When I started using
> > gnucash (way back in version 2), I never specified or worried about
> > currency, because everything I did was in Canadian dollars, and all the
> > reports worked as anticipated. Somewhere along the line, there must have
> > been a change involving how currency was used to generate reports (or
> maybe
> > I specified something as Canadian dollars that I should have left alone).
> >
> > In any case, once I ensured that all my accounts were set to Canadian
> > dollars, and the currency of choice on the commodities tab of the report
> > options was set to Canadian dollars, all the reports started to work
> again
> > as I had hoped.
> >
> > However, for a while I was going into the options/commodities every time
> I
> > ran a report to switch the currency to CAD. Under the
> > Edit/Preferences/Accounts tab, I had default currency set to 'choose' and
> > 'CAD (Canadian dollar')', but it took me a while to realize that I also
> had
> > to do this under Edit/Preferences/Reports as well.
>
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