[GNC] Account Total not matching Account Balance

[Kalpesh Patel]

You probably want to enable showing of "Present" column in CoA window. Click on the arrow that in the next cell over to right from "Notes" text and check the box in front of "Present" or "Present (USD)" from the drop down list to show total for the account as of today (dis-regard any transaction past today if present)

-----Original Message-----
From: Rares Vernica <rvernica at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2025 10:31 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] Account Total not matching Account Balance

Hello,

I'm using GnuCash

Version: 5.12
Build ID: 5.12+(2025-06-28)
Finance::Quote: 1.66


in Fedora Linux.

The account Totals shows on the summary Accounts page shows totals that are different from the balances of the account. The balances of the accounts are correct. So, the Totals shown on the Accounts page are incorrect.

For example, on the Accounts page I see account Foo with a Total of $15 while if I open account Foo, the balance after the last transaction is $20.
$20 is the correct value that I expect to see in Accounts Total. This happens for a number of accounts.

The data is stored in XML text format. The file has about 38 MB. This issue has been going for some time. All the transactions are in the past.

I tried opening the timestamped .gnucash files created automatically and they have the same problem. I also tried Actions > Check & Repair, but it has no effect. I tried restarting and reloading the file and it doesn't help.

Thank you!
Rares