Ken, thanks for taking the time to give us that detailed report of the resolution. I'm sure it will help people who have a similar problem in the future and search the archives for a solution.
Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2024-06-29 09:22, Ken McEvoy wrote: > Thanks to all for advice on this. > > Ultimately, it did turn out to be a currency issue. When I started using > gnucash (way back in version 2), I never specified or worried about > currency, because everything I did was in Canadian dollars, and all the > reports worked as anticipated. Somewhere along the line, there must have > been a change involving how currency was used to generate reports (or maybe > I specified something as Canadian dollars that I should have left alone). > > In any case, once I ensured that all my accounts were set to Canadian > dollars, and the currency of choice on the commodities tab of the report > options was set to Canadian dollars, all the reports started to work again > as I had hoped. > > However, for a while I was going into the options/commodities every time I > ran a report to switch the currency to CAD. Under the > Edit/Preferences/Accounts tab, I had default currency set to 'choose' and > 'CAD (Canadian dollar')', but it took me a while to realize that I also had > to do this under Edit/Preferences/Reports as well. > > Ken > > > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 12:07 PM William Prescott <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks. I have been following this question out of curiosity. I have >> multiple currencies in my accounts (USD, EUR, MXN) but I almost never use >> the reporting functions, so I hadn't investigated the issues raised by the >> original question. >> >> >> Best wishes, >> Will Prescott >> >> On 29 Jun 2024, at 8:04, Fred Bone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 28 June 2024 at 16:34, Ken McEvoy said: >> >>> I am the treasurer of a small nonprofit, and I have no >>> accounting background, and a I'm also a beginner with gnucash ... >>> >>> We have a very simple set of accounts; single currency, only a few income >>> and expense categories. >>> >>> When I run a balance sheet report, the subtotals show accurate amounts, >>> but the totals for Assets, Liabilities and Equity are all zero. >>> >>> Can you help me understand what I might have done, or why the major >> totals >>> are all zero? >> >> It looks as though your assets are in one currency (C$) and the book in >> another ($) with no conversion rate provided. _______________________________________________ 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.
