[GNC] Report Generation problem

[Michael or Penny Novack]

//I will repeat, the "net retained earnings" (or losses) appearing on 
the Balance Sheet is the NET of all income and expense accounts. Those 
are temporary accounts of fundamental type equity but not yet 
incorporated into an actual equity account BECAUSE THE BOOKS HAVE NOT 
(YET) BEEN CLOSED. That's what a "close the books" does.

a) When running the Balance Sheet with books open (we  gnucash users do 
not usually ever close the books) leave this amount showing. OR if you 
want, in your "pretty print" edit of the report you could:

        1) Add that amount to equity instead of it showing as a separate 
line

        2) << better >> Change the description of that line to something 
like "Net of all Income and Expense accounts"

b) Do NOT run a Balance Sheet with the income and Expense accounts 
deselected. Would not be in balance as a Balance Sheet should be.

c) OR -- you cloud do a "close the books" before running the Balance 
Sheet. But then each interval stands alone. You would not, for example, 
be able to run YTD for 1st quarter, the YTD for 2nd quarter, etc. << 
because you would have closed at the end of 1st quarter.

The TITLE gnucash uses for things might not be what you expect, just 
live with that.

Michael D Novack