Set that preference for Reverse Balanced Accounts to ‘credit’. That’s the way I have mine set and every account with a ‘normal’ balance is positive. Only contra-balanced accounts show negative.
Note, you can play with this setting and the CoA should update in real time without having to exit the Preferences window. Regards, Adrien > On Feb 24, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > Using 2.6.18. > > I want credit balances to be positive in liabilities, equities, and > income, and debit balances to be positive in assets and expenses. I'd > think this was standard, but I can't find any way to have it in both the > Assets & Liabilities » Balance Sheet report and the Assets & Liabilities > » General Ledger report. (The latter appears on a tab called Transaction > Report.) > > In Edit » Preferences » Accounts, I set "Reverse Balanced Accounts" to > None, but then all my credit accounts we backwards in the Balance Sheet. > (Exception: Retained Earnings is not backwards.) There's no "Reverse" > option in Edit » Report Options, so I figure I must be misunderstanding > the setting in Edit » Preferences » Accounts, and change it to Credit > Accounts. That fixes the Balance Sheet, but now the amounts are > backwards in credit accounts in the General Ledger report (though the > totals of credit accounts in that report are not backwards). There's no > reversing option for that report either. > > What am I doing wrong? > > -- > Regards, > Stan Brown > Tompkins County, New York, USA > http://BrownMath.com > http://OakRoadSystems.com > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.