> On Jan 21, 2020 w4d21, at 9:47 AM, Christopher Lam > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 15:39, Christian Lynbech <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It does seem as if the balance sheet contains all the information I need, >> however have I understood it correctly that one only specifies a single >> date (as opposed to an interval)? In other words, does the balance sheet >> always produce the accumulated result from the beginning of the book to the >> selected date? There is another report called Equity Statement that works >> on periods and while it has the end result, it lacks all of the individual >> account details that the balance sheet has. >> > > Try the income statement (aka profit and loss) instead. > > Or try the multicolumn balance-sheet (can display balances at several date) > or profit-and-loss instead in the experimental reports menu. Keep exploring > ;) > > >> Somewhat related to this, I am also still struggling to figure out to >> handle the equity. On the Balance Sheet, I see the equity sum and the >> result, but the two are not combined. Are there any alternative to closing >> the book or do some manual transaction to get equity rebalanced? >> >> Let me try to provide an example. >> >> In year 1, I put 1000 into the company which is added to the equity >> sub-account “Founder Deposit”, the company buys a computer for 100 and does >> some work that pays 200. On the Balance Sheet for year 1, this is listed as >> equity of 1000 and result (income - expense) of 100. Lets say the company >> in year 2 also does work that pays 200, how do I handle that year 2 starts >> with equity of 1100, rather than equity of 1000 and a result of 100? I can >> move the result to equity by closing the book, but is there any report that >> takes this into account without actually doing the close? >> > > Income statement from the beginning of year 2 to the end of year 2. Income > statements *don't* contain equity items (someone prove me wrong?).
Sorry, can’t help you there. Income Statements only report Income & Expenses, not Equity or Liabilities. You are correct. (if such a report did, it would be a bug for certain) Regards, Adrien _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
