David, GnuCash can show you the balance of a parent account as two different things on reports and in the CoA:
1. Actual balance of the account (sum of debits and credits in that one account) 2. The sum of the balances of each of the child accounts (what Derek called ‘roll-up’) Running/rolling balances are just the current sum of the account’s debits and credits. (the balance of the account) GnuCash can also show parent accounts as their actual balance on reports (#1 above) *and* add sub-total lines after the listing of all child accounts. (so you get both options together - this would be useful for when a parent account is *not* a placeholder and has its own transactions) Regards, Adrien > On Nov 18, 2019 w47d322, at 9:03 AM, David Carlson > <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Derek, > > If what you call a rolling balance is what I call a running balance, then > I think that the account register view will show that when it is sorted in > chronological order. In fact, as others have already noted, you can see > that in your top level accounts. Where you won't see it is in mixed > commodity/mixed currency cases such as stock brokerage accounts or other > mixed currency accounts. For those cases it is necessary to use a report > that can evaluate appropriate exchange rates. > > David Carlson > _______________________________________________ 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.
