I am an accountant and am quite familiar with this information. I just expected to be able to select all transactions for a period in a number of accounts with the General Ledger report.
-- Stephen C. Camidge scami...@fastmail.fm (519) 363-3912 On Mon, May 6, 2019, at 9:18 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 5/6/2019 8:22 AM, Stephen C. Camidge wrote: > > > > > 3 - G/L is General Ledger > > > > Ah..... being misled by the name of the report. > > This is a situation where useful to understand how traditional pen and > ink on paper bookkeeping worked. You FIRST entered transactions in > chronological order into a "book" called the Journal. These entries were > then "posted" to the Ledger (to the ledger accounts affected). > > Gnucash allows us to enter the transactions beginning in any of the > affected ledger accounts. We don't even see something resembling a > journal entry unless entering a "split transaction". In other words, the > journal is virtual. > > But gnucash CAN show you the journal if you ask it to. As a report. Your > problem is with your expectation of what you are looking at when you ask > gnucash to give you a G/L or General Journal report. > > Michael D Novack > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
