Thank you for the suggestion about General Journal. I like the way the Account Report is formatted; namely, in "hanging paragraphs" with the first split, only, labeled with the Description. This makes it easy to discern the boundaries between transactions.
But when I ask for running balances, *Reports>Account Report* only shows them for the first account in each transaction and the balances are all shown as zero. The report is labeled Transaction Report. (Even the ledger obtained shown from Tools>General Journal shows zero running balances.) On the other hand, *Reports>Assets & Liabilities>Transaction Report* gives the running balance of all accounts in a transaction, and I like to see that information, though I wish I could obtain the "hanging paragraph" formatting. See my two screen shots for examples. I am using Gnucash 4.11. I'm not sure it's the latest version, so maybe what I am looking for appears in a later version. For what it's worth, it seems a bit odd that a Transaction Report can be produced in two very different ways that give different results from seemingly the same options. I do wish the formatting from *Reports>Assets & Liabilities>Transaction Report* could provide a way to produce the "hanging paragraph" formatting, perhaps by means of an *Options>Display* checkbox labeled "Display description only for the first split". On the other hand, I do like the availability of *Tools>General Journal* for its own sake, since from it one can focus on a range of transactions and make changes if necessary. But I don't think there's a need to be able to make a Transaction Report from it, since it should be possible to create the desired transaction report from the *Reports>Assets & Liabilities>Transaction Report* in any case. The last two paragraphs are just my 2ยข! Best, -P. On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:22 PM Adrien Monteleone < [email protected]> wrote: > You may be also interested in viewing the General Journal (Tools menu). > > This defaults to 30 days, but you can use View > Filter by... and change > that to 'all'. (or your desired date range) > > Then run Reports > Account Report. > > You'll get a similar report with all transactions for all accounts in > that you were viewing. > > As for balancing, certainly checking the Orphan and Imbalance accounts > is good practice. You can also use the Trial Balance Report. Though I > think there have been some bugs with it as of late based on list > messages. Those might only have to do with multi-currency issues however. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 10/26/22 10:47 AM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Thank you, Adrian. > > > > The reason I created the Transaction report was simply to obtain a > printed > > record of the transactions from that month to keep on file in order to > > examine them offline and/or send them to others within my organization. > > > > I now realize that the reason I did not get a total of zero is that I > did > > not have all accounts selected. It was your response that led me to > check. > > By the way, I did have "One transaction per line" selected. > > > > When looking for imbalances, I do start with the Imbalance total in the > > balance sheet. If it is not zero, I assume everything balances. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >
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