Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-28 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/28/2023 2:59 AM, Chris Bastock via gnucash-user wrote: Thanks for all the input. I am aware that both TB and Balance sheet are snapshots on a particular date and of the respective uses of both of them. Personally I’m happy with the TB report and I do it periodically throughout the year. I

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-28 Thread Chris Bastock via gnucash-user
Thanks for all the input. I am aware that both TB and Balance sheet are snapshots on a particular date and of the respective uses of both of them. Personally I’m happy with the TB report and I do it periodically throughout the year. I guess my reason for asking was only because my accountant

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-27 Thread Liz
On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:44:17 +0100 Chris Bastock via gnucash-user wrote: > I also not that on the TB there is no way to filter for accounts with > a zero balance. This means manually removing them. Is this really desirable? If I was your auditor, I would want to see accounts with a zero

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance PS

2023-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
PS --- And in the "old days" we used to do a trial balance BEFORE closing the books because wanting  to be sure the books were in balance at that point, and not having to try to find/fix the errors after. Of course also done at periodic intervals to make sure any errors fixed between now and

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/27/2023 12:54 PM, smit...@smith54.karoo.co.uk wrote: I would recommend going to tools and using Close Book to remove the previous years TB P figures. Then re-run the TB. Regards, David I think this might be the place for a bit of double entry bookkeeping theory/terminology and how the

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-27 Thread smith54
: Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance On 4/27/2023 11:44 AM, Chris Bastock via gnucash-user wrote: > Hi Hive Mind > Apologies if asked before, I have searched and searched but can’t seem to > find a definitive answer. > > I need to send a TB to my accountant and - as with last ye

Re: [GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-27 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 4/27/2023 11:44 AM, Chris Bastock via gnucash-user wrote: Hi Hive Mind Apologies if asked before, I have searched and searched but can’t seem to find a definitive answer. I need to send a TB to my accountant and - as with last year - when I run the report I get a report that covers the

[GNC] GNUcash 5 - Trial Balance

2023-04-27 Thread Chris Bastock via gnucash-user
Hi Hive Mind Apologies if asked before, I have searched and searched but can’t seem to find a definitive answer. I need to send a TB to my accountant and - as with last year - when I run the report I get a report that covers the entire period of my books I.e from day 1. This is despite