On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 15:39, Christian Lynbech <clynb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It does seem as if the balance sheet contains all the information I need, > however have I understood it correctly that one only specifies a single > date (as opposed to an interval)? In other words, does the balance sheet > always produce the accumulated result from the beginning of the book to the > selected date? There is another report called Equity Statement that works > on periods and while it has the end result, it lacks all of the individual > account details that the balance sheet has. > Try the income statement (aka profit and loss) instead. Or try the multicolumn balance-sheet (can display balances at several date) or profit-and-loss instead in the experimental reports menu. Keep exploring ;) > Somewhat related to this, I am also still struggling to figure out to > handle the equity. On the Balance Sheet, I see the equity sum and the > result, but the two are not combined. Are there any alternative to closing > the book or do some manual transaction to get equity rebalanced? > > Let me try to provide an example. > > In year 1, I put 1000 into the company which is added to the equity > sub-account “Founder Deposit”, the company buys a computer for 100 and does > some work that pays 200. On the Balance Sheet for year 1, this is listed as > equity of 1000 and result (income - expense) of 100. Lets say the company > in year 2 also does work that pays 200, how do I handle that year 2 starts > with equity of 1100, rather than equity of 1000 and a result of 100? I can > move the result to equity by closing the book, but is there any report that > takes this into account without actually doing the close? > Income statement from the beginning of year 2 to the end of year 2. Income statements *don't* contain equity items (someone prove me wrong?). _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
