Nigel, as long as your parent accounts are all placeholders that will work
fine, but if any of them can or do contain transactions, by not showing their
balances, the sum of the accounts on the report won’t match the totals shown.
(making all parent accounts placeholders is probably the safest
Adrien. You made me experiment a bit and I came up with:
Parent account balances: Do not show
Parent account sub-totals: Show sub-totals
Show accounting style rules
Apart fro column indentation being dependant on longest account name
(you can possibly fudge that with account names :-(), this
Hi Nigel
Please feel free to help beta test a new income-statement. It aims to
replace the current one which has numerous unfixable inconsistencies.
It has no redundant subtotals, and it can compare incomes/expenses
across periods.
The account indenting is better, and the amount indenting
Even with your example, the Income and Sales amounts should be further to the
right. I agree, child account amounts should be on the left and
parents/subtotals/totals should be on the right.
Try this in your report options:
Set Parent Account Balances to ’Subtotal’
Set Parent Account Subtotals
I have looked for references to the problem via Google, but with no luck.
My problem is with indentation in reports with accounts that have
children. I feel that the parent should be indented further than the
children, to give the correct hierarchy. That way, the entries in a
column are the
