[GNC] Reports Options: Unexpected Behavior

[Adrien Monteleone]

When the income statement is first run, it is including the hidden 
account. (but is not supposed to) Toggling the radio button is 
apparently 'fixing' this to work as intended.

Therefore since the initial behavior is not as designed, I'd call it a bug.

I just tested this on a Mac and it is working as you describe, so not 
specific to OS.

Regards,
Adrien

On 3/4/24 8:21 AM, Old Sawmill wrote:
> I am a new GnuCash user, and I successfully exported more than 10,000
> transactions in several hundred multi-level accounts from QuickBooks
> and imported that dataset into GnuCash Version 5.5 (Build ID:
> 5.5+2023-12-16) running on Windows 11.
> 
> While applying GnuCash capabilities to this imported dataset, I
> encountered an unexpected behavior with Reports Options, which I have
> distilled into the scenario below (feel free to follow along with the
> attached GnuCash data file and associated screenshots image):
> 
> 1. The data file contains three accounts (MyBank, MyHiddenIncome, and
> MyExpense), one $708.00 transaction between MyBank and MyHiddenIncome
> (a hidden account), and one $666.00 transaction between MyBank and
> MyExpense.
> 
> 2. After opening the data file, go directly to the Reports menu and
> select (the built-in) Income Statement, which creates an Income
> Statement that shows $42.00 of net income, the expected difference
> between $708.00 of income and $666.00 of expense.
> 
> 3. Next, select Report Options, and select the General tab.  Note that
> the dates are "Start of accounting period" and "End of accounting
> period" (corresponding to the current calendar year).
> 
> 4. Then, select the radio button for entering a custom Start Date, but
> do not change that custom Start Date value.  Instead, just immediately
> re-select the radio button for "Start of accounting period", and click
> OK to apply and close the Options dialog.
> 
> 5. Note that the Income Statement now shows a $666.00 net loss, merely
> because of back-and-forth radio button changes on the Options/General
> tab.
> 
> 
> Now, I have come to understand what GnuCash is doing in this scenario
> and in various real-world scenarios from which this scenario was
> distilled.  So, I have just one question for the GnuCash Community:
> 
> Is the behavior that occurs in this scenario a Feature, or a Bug?