Thank you, Adrian. The reason I created the Transaction report was simply to obtain a printed record of the transactions from that month to keep on file in order to examine them offline and/or send them to others within my organization.
I now realize that the reason I did not get a total of zero is that I did not have all accounts selected. It was your response that led me to check. By the way, I did have "One transaction per line" selected. When looking for imbalances, I do start with the Imbalance total in the balance sheet. If it is not zero, I assume everything balances. Thanks, -P. On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:18 AM Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > The Subtotal in this case is for one month. It represents the net > (credit in this case) balance *for the chosen accounts* over that > period. (you could have set subtotal by account first instead of date > first) > > The Grand Total is the net debit/credit over the entire report range - > *for those account*. > > The other splits are not part of these calculations. > > In Options > Display > Detail level, try 'One Transaction Per Line' > instead of 'One Split Per Line' and you'll see this more clearly. > > I would not expect to see a zero balance in these spots unless I had > exactly the same amount of debit as credit, which is pretty odd in any > one single account, but could happen if you intentionally chose two or > more accounts that are always on opposite sides of a transaction. Such a > report wouldn't tell you much however, except documenting that the > transaction exists. > > If you did this intentionally to see if all transactions balanced > between a set of accounts and didn't get a zero balance, that just means > at least one transaction involves one or more accounts you did not include. > > The Transaction Report can be used for lots of things. The first > question I'd have for you is, "What question are you trying to answer by > running it?" This should guide your choice of options. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 10/25/22 10:22 PM, Peter S. Shenkin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What do the Total and Grand Total at the end of a Transaction Report > > signify? > > > > Please see the attachment, which shows the last few lines of a > Transaction > > Report. For most reports I generate, the values shown are zero, but here > > both the Total and Grand Total are shown as $20.83 > > > > I thought at first that this might imply a mismatch between debits and > > credits, but if that were correct I guess I would see a non-zero balance > in > > the Imbalance account. However, the Balance Sheet for the end of the > month > > that this Transaction Report includes shows a zero balance in this > account. > > > > The same is true if I look at the Imbalance account in the Register. That > > is, it has a zero balance. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
