[GNC] solved: Order of accounts when closing the book

[Christopher Lam]

See sample datafile and two reports
The expenses account increases steadily.
There are 3 closing transactions -- 31/12/23 created "properly" via Tool /
Close Book, and 30/06/24 with SX, and 31/12/24 by Duplicating a previous
closing transaction.
See the reports, having the latter two closing transactions showing a large
negative balance in the reports.
This occurs because reports are *not* detecting them via tag.
Some legacy reports can detect them via regex which defaults to "Closing
Entries".
HTH

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 at 09:59, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <
stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Thanks, I didn't know about the tag mechanism. The only relevant reports
> I've tried are Income Statement and Profit & Loss, and each of those has
> an option on the Entries page to specify a phrase or regex for
> transactions to be ignored.
>
> Maybe I'm not understanding your point, but my income statement and
> balance sheet aren't distorted in the way you describe. I don't always
> run monthly reports, but just now I ran one for last December and the
> income and expense amounts were as I expected.
>
>
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