[GNC] Changing from one year to the next

[R Losey]

I added "Total (Period)" per Stan's information, and the Income, Expense,
and Liabilities all seem to be working correctly. The Assets like bank and
savings account also are correct (they are all in USD). The problem seems
to be with the investment accounts, which have sub-accounts of stock with
various prices; they don't seem to be totaling up correctly. As I don't run
regular quote updates, so the price per share is only updated when there
are transactions in that account. So, it might be related to the bug you
mentioned, especially if it hasn't been fixe yet. I am running the current
version of GnuCash (5.14).

Or maybe it's my understanding: If I sell 100 shares at $10/share (thus
$1,000) of stock A last week and transfer the funds to my cash account, I
expect that the total for the period should be zero, with Stock A losing
100 shares at $10/share, and the cash fund increasing $1,000. The Total
(Period) shows the decrease of 10 shares, and the increase of $1,000 in the
cash account, but the total for the period shows something like down
$10,000.





On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 5:42 AM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:

> I recall a bug/feature in 4.x version where if you changed the accounting
> period the COA totals would not reflect new period totals until after
> another action is taken -- like update quotes. Also remember that there are
> multiple total types (Total, Total(Period), Total (USD) , etc.) in COA so
> selecting correct one is also necessary.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <stan+gc at fastmail.fm>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2026 8:30 PM
> To: R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Changing from one year to the next
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 12:41 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
> > <stan+gc at fastmail.fm <mailto:stan%2Bgc at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2026-01-19 10:18, R Losey wrote:
> >     > There is a end-of-year closeout in which income and expense
> >     accounts are
> >     > zeroed (by rolling them into Equity). This is not necessary to do
> for
> >     > GnuCash to work, but some people like doing it (I am one that does
> >     - it
> >     > makes Income and Expense account totals reflect only the current
> >     year).
> >
> >     Like you, I zero out income and expense accounts every year. But it's
> >     not necessary to do that to see the totals for the current year.
> That's
> >     always possible on the Accounts pane, assuming you've set your
> >     accounting period to start and end with the start and end of this
> year.
> >     (That's in Edit » Preferences » Accounting Period.)
> >
> >     To show the current period income and expenses in the Accounts pane,
> >     clock the triangle at the extreme right of the headings and tick
> "Total
> >     (Period)".
>
>
> On 2026-01-19 13:02, R Losey wrote:
>
> > True, Stan. I do have it set for current year, and that does work for
> > income/expense... but not for categories under Assets or Liabilities.
>
> Are you sure about that? It sure looks to me like Asset and Liability
> accounts show the amount of change, positive or negative, in the account
> during the current period, just as for Income and Expense accounts. That
> equivalence is less obvious, of course, if Income and Expense accounts
> start each year at zero.
>
> For instance, my liability to Wells Fargo was $1073.77 on 2025-12-31 and
> will be $724.90 on 2026-01-26. That is a reduction of $348.87, and
> Total(Period) shows $(348.87), just as I would expect.
>
> Stan Brown
> Tehachapi, CA, USA
> https://BrownMath.com
>
>
>

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