Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-26 Thread Colin Penner
: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem Off the top of my head, copy the entire report, paste it into a spreadsheet, and delete the offending entries. ⁣David T.​ On Jan 24, 2025, 11:25 PM, at 11:25 PM, Colin Penner wrote: >I want to switch from Quicken to Gnu-C

Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-25 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
On 2025-01-25 07:23, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user wrote: > c) OR -- you cloud do a "close the books" before running the Balance > Sheet. But then each interval stands alone. You would not, for example, > be able to run YTD for 1st quarter, the YTD for 2nd quarter, etc. << > because yo

Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
//I will repeat, the "net retained earnings" (or losses) appearing on the Balance Sheet is the NET of all income and expense accounts. Those are temporary accounts of fundamental type equity but not yet incorporated into an actual equity account BECAUSE THE BOOKS HAVE NOT (YET) BEEN CLOSED. Tha

Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-25 Thread Colin Penner
I will try that. On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 1:49 p.m. sunfis...@yahoo.com wrote: > Off the top of my head, copy the entire report, paste it into a > spreadsheet, and delete the offending entries. > > ⁣David T.​ > > On Jan 24, 2025, 11:25 PM, at 11:25 PM, Colin Penner < > colin.penne...@gmail.com> wro

Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-24 Thread Jediator
Indeed, without the Retained Earnings line, the book won't be balanced.  In QuickBooks (I assume it would be the same in Quickens) when displaying a balance sheet, a Net Income line (calculated during runtime) is included under Equity, so the book will always be balanced.   It is essentially ha

Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-24 Thread Jediator
To get rid of the Retained Earning from your report, just edit the report options and deselect all income and expense accounts. I agree that the Retained Earning in GNC for most individual users doesn't make much sense since we are not dealing with net operating income or stock dividends.  The

Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-24 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 1/23/2025 3:34 PM, Colin Penner wrote: I want to switch from Quicken to Gnu-Cash. The only problem that I have is that Gnu-Cash Balance Sheet reports include a line of either "Retained Earnings" or "Retained Liabilities". For my requirements I MUST eliminate both of these lines. Is there any

Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-24 Thread Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)
From a strictly mechanical point of view, what David suggests will get the job done. (A similar option is exporting the report as HTML and then editing the HTML.) But I don't understand how the OP can present a "balance sheet" that doesn't actually balance. That's the inevitable result of simply d

Re: [GNC] Report Generation problem

2025-01-24 Thread sunfish62--- via gnucash-user
Off the top of my head, copy the entire report, paste it into a spreadsheet, and delete the offending entries. ⁣David T.​ On Jan 24, 2025, 11:25 PM, at 11:25 PM, Colin Penner wrote: >I want to switch from Quicken to Gnu-Cash. The only problem that I have >is that Gnu-Cash Balance Sheet report