Report Options > Display (at least for P&L/Income Statement and the Balance
Sheet)
Parent account balances > Account Balance | Subtotal | Do not show
Parent account subtotals > Show subtotals | Do not show | Textbook style
(experimental)
The first option will show the Account Balance if the parent is *not* a
placeholder and has transactions.
The first option “Subtotal” will show the roll-up of the kids, regardless of if
there are transactions in the parent. (from my understanding)
The second option “Show subtotals” will show a line AFTER the list of kids with
“<account> Total” and an amount, which I *think* includes the parent and
children
I’ve never seen any difference with the Text Book Style.
Generally, all my parents are placeholders, but I have a few that aren’t. So I
set this to Account Balance, and *also* set to suppress zero balance figures
and accounts. (so only those parents with transactions get a figure, otherwise,
it is blank) And then I set the second option to Show Subtotals.
So I get something like this:
====================
Auto
Auto Insurance $717.73
Fuel
E10 $73.55
Gas $522.01
Total Fuel ------- $595.56
Parking $3.15
Repair and Maintenance
Fluids $61.96
Labor $48.00
Parts $397.63
Warranty $40.00
Total Parts ------- $437.63
Supplies $10.01
Total Repair and Maintenance ------- $557.60
Total Auto ------- $1,874.04
====================
However for my Balance Sheet, none of the detail I choose to show has any
parents with transactions, so I set the first option to “Do Not Show” and the
second to “Show Subtotals” (I still suppress zero balance figures and accounts
for cleanliness)
Regards,
Adrien
> On May 2, 2019, at 9:19 PM, Stephen M. Butler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 5/2/19 6:50 PM, Roderick Anderson wrote:
>> Thanks Stephen.
>>
>> This is kind of what I was thinking I needed to do.
>>
>> Can you offer some pointers to find out more about 'setting flags' and
>> roll-up account? I figured there should be options like this but too
>> ignorant of accounting to even know where to look.
>>
>>
>> 73,
>> Rod - K7ZBE
>
> I went looking and couldn't find it. I was thinking that one of the
> Balance Sheet or Transaction reports had the option to include the
> children in the total. But, couldn't find it this round.
>
> There are a couple of places where GnC keeps system level type settings.
>
> 1. File:Properties
>
> 2. Edit:Preferences
>
> Then each report has an Options menu item that will have multiple tabs
> for setting options for that specific report. Some reports won't show
> anything until you set the desired options.
>
> --
> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
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