> On May 18, 2016, at 7:03 AM, Aaron Laws <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:22 PM, John Ralls <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > The Balance Sheet report shows you net worth. You probably didn't recognize > it because the accounting word for it is "equity". Recall that the accounting > equation is Assets = Liabilities + Equity*, so by associativity Equity = > Assets - Liabilities. > > > When we say Assets = Liabilities + Equity, it means All Assets = All > Liabilities + All Equity. This works if I include all (non-$0) assets, > liabilities and equity, and do so when there are no revenues nor expenses > (just after closing the books). At any other time, or in any other way, that > equation doesn't hold, and even in that specific case, it's not the > information I'm seeking. > > Attached is a small sample (hopefully it comes through okay). When I get a > balance sheet only selecting the current assets and liabilities, the > resulting report looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/uW0uE5R.png > <http://i.imgur.com/uW0uE5R.png> which shows $0 for equity (because I didn't > select any equity accounts). > > In this case, since my checking account has $15, and credit card has $12, I > would like to see that my net current assets are $3. This purposefully leaves > out the fixed asset which makes the net worth much higher. > > I'm not convinced that this should be a separate report in gnucash; it seems > like an ad-hoc, one-off report to satisfy a curiosity of mine, much like > report requests from other users. How is the suggestion for a flexible, > general report taken? Maybe it should be called a report builder? > > <example.gnucash>
OK. One report to rule them all doesn't seem feasible to me, but a report builder that's more user-friendly than what we have now--write Scheme code or use SQL--would be a great improvement and one we've discussed here before. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
