Re: [GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-24 Thread Christopher Lam
In the balance sheet, retained earnings refer to total income minus expenses on the report date. On Thu., 14 Mar. 2019, 04:35 Andrea Borgia, wrote: > Il 10/03/19 10:16, Adrien Monteleone ha scritto: > > > > The fact that this is also the same amount as this particular > > transaction you

Re: [GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-13 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 10/03/19 10:16, Adrien Monteleone ha scritto: The fact that this is also the same amount as this particular transaction you entered for 13/01/17 is purely coincidental. (and should be, since it is entered in 2017 and you are running a balance sheet as of 31/12/16, unless you *aren’t*

Re: [GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-10 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 10/03/19 10:55, Liz ha scritto: If you have a negative balance do you pay a "negative" tax? Liz I have never tried but I assume you simply would pay nothing. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription

Re: [GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-10 Thread Liz
Andrea Borgia wrote: > (*) yeah, in Italy you pay a small percentage of your bank account > balance for the privilege of having a bank account. Funny place, I know. > If you have a negative balance do you pay a "negative" tax? Liz ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-10 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, sorry. I misunderstood your post. The Balance Sheet Report does show a Retained Earnings line if you do not close books that is calculated as if you had. (which is why you don’t need to use that procedure, GnuCash doesn’t require you to close books as that is a procedure mostly dictated

Re: [GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-10 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il 10/03/19 01:19, Adrien Monteleone ha scritto: Retained Earnings is posted when you perform a close book operation. (or manually zero your income/expense accounts to Equity) If you didn’t do this for 2015, there would be no entry. If you performed the 2016 close book operation in Jan 2017,

Re: [GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-09 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Retained Earnings is posted when you perform a close book operation. (or manually zero your income/expense accounts to Equity) If you didn’t do this for 2015, there would be no entry. If you performed the 2016 close book operation in Jan 2017, you’ll have a retained earnings entry in that

[GNC] retained earnings in balance sheet: where does it come from?

2019-03-09 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. While splitting a multi-year book, I saw that the (end of) 2016 balance sheet has an entry called "retained earnings" with a value of 54.10. A find-by-value gives me an entry in jan.2017 from an account which has a tax-related flag set (and can't be changed, too): am I correct in