Il 10/03/19 10:16, Adrien Monteleone ha scritto:
The fact that this is also the same amount as this particular
transaction you entered for 13/01/17 is purely coincidental. (and
should be, since it is entered in 2017 and you are running a balance
sheet as of 31/12/16, unless you *aren’t* setting that report date
properly) Transactions after 31/12/16 (or whatever date you run your
balance sheet for) are not part of the report calculation, so they
can’t affect it.
I'm not a big fan of coincidences where lots of transactions are
involved and the difference matches just one of them.
I had made an error in the P&L calculation for 2016, meaning I had
included that amount as a loss instead of leaving it out. Now that am
splitting the file, I have fixed the mistake for 2016 already and 2017
is next in line.
2015 might not show that line, but that would mean your expenses
match your income exactly for that year, an unlikely but not
impossible scenario.
No, no, it's downright impossible: I am saving quite a bit each year but
I was closing the books (even before splitting) at the end of the year
so the balance sheet on dec.31st would show all zeroes... unless someone
with fat fingers had made an error and included an entry from the
following year :P
With one file per year, I saw that closing the books on jan.1st of the
following year would enable me to have a meaningful balance sheet and
that's what I'll be doing. That has the added bonus of being much easier
to carry over to the next year.
Last but not least, sorry if I mix up some terms: I am not an accountant
so, each time I want to ask a question, I have to re-run gnucash in
English to check whether the report I used in Italian is what I expect
it to be with an English label.
Regards,
Andrea.
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