I didn't say it was a bug -- just that it is not working as expected... but remember that this is for this year, and there stock price hasn't fluctuated that much. If it showed a loss of $20 or so, okay, but $10000 since the start of the year? It COULD be mere price fluctuation (but I don't update prices -- they just get modified when there is a buy/sell/dividend action). So... the value being down that much JUST SINCE 01 Jan seems a little off.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > You seeing $10K difference is **NOT** result of this bug I mentioned – > the bug doesn’t display erroneous value once another action is taken -- > like relaunching GNC. > > > > The differential of $10K for Total (Period) is likely resulting from > pricing fluctuation aggregated for all stock sub-accounts within period > set; not just the one you sold. The pricing database stores one price per > security per day which would also impact multiple accounts if that security > is held in multiple accounts. The other possibility is that there is a > chance that one of the security might have a wrong pricing value in the > database that falls within the period being set that is getting used for > the difference calculation. > > > > *From:* R Losey <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 20, 2026 12:34 PM > *To:* Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <[email protected]>; > [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [GNC] Changing from one year to the next > > > > I added "Total (Period)" per Stan's information, and the Income, Expense, > and Liabilities all seem to be working correctly. The Assets like bank and > savings account also are correct (they are all in USD). The problem seems > to be with the investment accounts, which have sub-accounts of stock with > various prices; they don't seem to be totaling up correctly. As I don't run > regular quote updates, so the price per share is only updated when there > are transactions in that account. So, it might be related to the bug you > mentioned, especially if it hasn't been fixe yet. I am running the current > version of GnuCash (5.14). > > > > Or maybe it's my understanding: If I sell 100 shares at $10/share (thus > $1,000) of stock A last week and transfer the funds to my cash account, I > expect that the total for the period should be zero, with Stock A losing > 100 shares at $10/share, and the cash fund increasing $1,000. The Total > (Period) shows the decrease of 10 shares, and the increase of $1,000 in the > cash account, but the total for the period shows something like down > $10,000. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 5:42 AM Kalpesh Patel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I recall a bug/feature in 4.x version where if you changed the accounting > period the COA totals would not reflect new period totals until after > another action is taken -- like update quotes. Also remember that there are > multiple total types (Total, Total(Period), Total (USD) , etc.) in COA so > selecting correct one is also necessary. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2026 8:30 PM > To: R Losey <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GNC] Changing from one year to the next > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 12:41 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) > > <[email protected] <mailto:stan%[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 2026-01-19 10:18, R Losey wrote: > > > There is a end-of-year closeout in which income and expense > > accounts are > > > zeroed (by rolling them into Equity). This is not necessary to do > for > > > GnuCash to work, but some people like doing it (I am one that does > > - it > > > makes Income and Expense account totals reflect only the current > > year). > > > > Like you, I zero out income and expense accounts every year. But it's > > not necessary to do that to see the totals for the current year. > That's > > always possible on the Accounts pane, assuming you've set your > > accounting period to start and end with the start and end of this > year. > > (That's in Edit » Preferences » Accounting Period.) > > > > To show the current period income and expenses in the Accounts pane, > > clock the triangle at the extreme right of the headings and tick > "Total > > (Period)". > > > On 2026-01-19 13:02, R Losey wrote: > > > True, Stan. I do have it set for current year, and that does work for > > income/expense... but not for categories under Assets or Liabilities. > > Are you sure about that? It sure looks to me like Asset and Liability > accounts show the amount of change, positive or negative, in the account > during the current period, just as for Income and Expense accounts. That > equivalence is less obvious, of course, if Income and Expense accounts > start each year at zero. > > For instance, my liability to Wells Fargo was $1073.77 on 2025-12-31 and > will be $724.90 on 2026-01-26. That is a reduction of $348.87, and > Total(Period) shows $(348.87), just as I would expect. > > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com > > > > > -- > > _________________________________ > Richard Losey > [email protected] > Micah 6:8 > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
