This is a nice hack. It would be even a nicer hack that the transaction report automatically inserts the balance brought forward on the same row as the account name. I suspect this is doable.
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, 3:10 pm david whiting, <d...@davidwhiting.me.uk> wrote: > What I do is add a transaction on the first date of the new period with the > transaction reference "Balance carried forward" with nothing in the > credit/debit columns. Then a transaction report with running balance has > "Balance carried forward" as the first transaction and the running balance > shows the amount carried forward. See attached example (our club financial > year runs from 1st August to 31st July). > > David > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, 23:17 Michael or Penny Novack, < > stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On 1/2/2020 5:33 PM, Christopher Lam wrote: > > > If it's a single-creditor liability account, you could try adding the > > > Display/Running Balance. However it doesn't quite give you the 'balance > > > brought forward' prior to the first printed transaction. > > > > > I will tell you how I would do this. It would be easy for me, because I > > don't insist that that the final printed version be printed from within > > gnucash. > > > > I would use the suggestion above, but set the date range to include the > > last transaction before. I would export the resulting report.. I would > > then edit the date of that last transaction to be the start date, change > > its description to "opening balance" and it's amount to zero/blank << it > > is the running balance after this transaction that is the starting > > balance >> > > > > I would then print THAT (or send THAT by electronic means > > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
