Re: [GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
For reference, see bug links below. Regards, Adrien On 7/16/23 2:50 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: This first label, currency symbol, is telling you what the next two figures are denominated in, though this is redundant since the currency symbol is repeated with the actual amounts. I'll file a

Re: [GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-16 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 7/13/23 5:19 PM, Stephen M. Butler wrote: Based on some experimentation, I suspect: 1.  Grand Total should always be zero (blank).  If ever non-zero it means you have an out-of-balance transaction (maybe more than one) somewhere. It is not possible to have an out-of-balance transaction.

[GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-14 Thread Neil Campbell
Thank you all for your very helpful information on the data in this Summary Box. Thanks for the latest info from Stephen and David. BTW the Grand Total has always been blank for me. I now think that I have the final key to solve the problem. I didn’t notice that in the Preferences section of

Re: [GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-13 Thread Stephen M. Butler
So I deleted those two transactions and Profits stayed at zero. Ended up quitting with saving.  On startup again the Profit was back and correct. Stephen M Butler stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 --- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726

Re: [GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-13 Thread Stephen M. Butler
Based on some experimentation, I suspect: 1.  Grand Total should always be zero (blank).  If ever non-zero it means you have an out-of-balance transaction (maybe more than one) somewhere. 2.  Net Assets appears to be Assets - Liabilities + Income - Expenses.  So, Total Equity including

Re: [GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On a Mac here (Monterey) and I can't get it to do anything via double-click. It just shows the other currency options same as the drop down arrow. None of my Summary numbers make any sense either, and my "$, Grand Total:" shows nothing like yours. Regards, Adrien On 7/13/23 3:43 PM, David

Re: [GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-13 Thread David H
My Grand Total always just shows as "$, Grand Total:" - hasn't had an amount in it forever so I just ignore these figures anyway as they're quite meaningless to me :-) There's a dropdown arrow on the right hand side that you can use to expand the items on that line - shows entries for each

Re: [GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-13 Thread David Carlson
Neil, If you scroll down in the summary box you will see additional rows identified by the currencies and securities in that file, if any exist. Perhaps that would lead to an account and one or more transactions that contain an incomplete closing transaction where some asset or liability was

Re: [GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm not sure exactly how those numbers are calculated and I've never relied on them. Perhaps a Balance Sheet would work better. You'd only need to know the headline numbers: Total Assets Total Liabilities Total Equity (perhaps, Retained Earnings/Losses, if you like, though that is part of

[GNC] Window/Mac Summary Box difference

2023-07-13 Thread Neil Campbell
I help a friend with their monthly accounting. She has GNUCash installed on a PC. I have GNUCash installed on a Mac mini M1 computer. She does the input. I do the month end transactions and check her input. So we send GNUCash data files backwards and forwards. The way I identify the file I have