On 07/02/2018 06:02 PM, Christopher Lam wrote:
> Hi Stephen
> The Running balance is directly retrieved from the split data; the
> ordering of same-day splits is, I believe, dependent on the order of
> data entered.
> If it matters try setting one of the sortkeys to 'register order' - it
> may work.... but even if it does, the custom sorter will sort strictly
> by date, so, the running balances will have unpredictable order.
> C
>

Yuck.  To bad the report doesn't recalculate the balances in the order
of the sort.
> On 2 July 2018 at 12:07, Stephen M. Butler <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     While balancing our checking account we ran into odd behavior on the 
>     transaction report.
>
>     The running balance column goes backwards when there are multiple
>     transactions on the same day.  For example:
>
>     05/17/2018      1213    xxxxx   
>             Green House     
>             $40.00
>     <gnc-register:trans-guid=6734c08cadc7b283f6d017249cef1f59#>
>     $2,863.80 <gnc-register:trans-guid=6734c08cadc7b283f6d017249cef1f59#>
>     05/18/2018      1195    xxxx   
>             Green House     
>             $2,250.00
>     <gnc-register:trans-guid=9ca2dd73a33bd8732c5aca13aaae1fa6#>
>     $1,564.45 <gnc-register:trans-guid=9ca2dd73a33bd8732c5aca13aaae1fa6#>
>     05/18/2018     
>             Ixxxx   
>             IHSA   
>             $126.58
>     <gnc-register:trans-guid=99e89375cb395cf6008fc3beea504257#>
>     $3,814.45 <gnc-register:trans-guid=99e89375cb395cf6008fc3beea504257#>
>     05/18/2018     
>             xxx     
>             Church 
>             $822.77
>     <gnc-register:trans-guid=724233f33cd8113781d90f804e6de03a#>
>     $3,941.03 <gnc-register:trans-guid=724233f33cd8113781d90f804e6de03a#>
>     05/18/2018     
>             xxx     
>             Cash.   
>             $200.00
>     <gnc-register:trans-guid=8064104e4955e72212a53f35071a508f#>
>     $4,763.80 <gnc-register:trans-guid=8064104e4955e72212a53f35071a508f#>
>     05/18/2018     
>             Transfer       
>             Money Market    $2,100.00
>     <gnc-register:trans-guid=b4688a9ed77cc8de4850978704754f9f#>     
>             $4,963.80
>     <gnc-register:trans-guid=b4688a9ed77cc8de4850978704754f9f#>
>
>
>
>     Notice how the running balance jumps from line 1 to line 6 then works
>     itself upwards back to line 2.  Then it jumps to line 7 (not shown).
>     Made for an interesting hour until the accountant figured out what was
>     going on.
>
>     -- 
>     Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
>     [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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