[GNC] How to find the transaction entered one minute ago

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 6/2/2025 2:06 PM, sunfish62 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Michael,
>
> As I understood it, the GnuCash "General Ledger" shows all 
> transactions in one register. Perhaps I have that terminology wrong.

You are talking about a report that gnucash names "General Ledger". I  
am talking about how the term "general ledger" is understood in accounting.*

Gnucash calls many of its reports by odd names. Thus the report called 
"Income Statement" is not a report just for accounts of type income. It 
includes accounts of type expense and usually called "Profit and Loss" 
(if the entity is a for profit business) or "Statement of Revenues and 
Expenses" (if the entity is not for profit). SAME REPORT. To confuse 
further, just as gnucash calls the report "Income Statement" (even 
though includes expenses) that not for profit might title the report 
"Statement of Revenues" (even though includes expenses).

OTHER gnucash reports also oddly named. Again I suggest those new to 
double entry bookkeeping at least glance at some reference (accounting 
101 text) so they see what the various commonly used reports LOOK LIKE 
and so can recognize what a given gnucash report really is regardless of 
report name in gnucash. I've already given you an example of "no single 
right name" because depends on type of entity.

Michael D Novack

* challenge --- you have found a report that shows all transactions in 
one account. Can you find a report that shows you all transactions in 
all accounts (one account after another) .THAT is what I would call a 
"General Ledger Report"