I solved my problem. I created a new TYPE bank account named it expense. Imported all my transactions from the TYPE A/payable account that was causing my issue to the new TYPE bank account expense. When I did the import the dollar amount import went in as a credit/withdraw. Created transaction report with two accounts: My Type bank income and My Type bank expense. Set reverse option to credit accounts. I now have all the transactions in the expense account that show as a negative dollars and the total of them as a negative dollars.
I may not be using GNUCash the correct way but it works for my needs. My intent was to set the two accounts sort of like a checking account. All my deposits would go to income account and all my withdrawals would come out of my expense account. Since the expense account started with a zero balance it would always have a negative balance that would continue to grow as transactions where added as credit/withdrawal. Since the income account started with a zero balance it would always have a positive balance that would continue to grow as transactions where added as debit/deposit. The transaction report was to simply show all the expense transactions and all the income transactions, and then to show the Grand Total as Income minus Expense ( i.e balance) Thanks Everyone For the help provided Joe -----Original Message----- From: Michael or Penny Novack <stepbystepf...@comcast.net> Sent: Friday, December 9, 2022 10:31 AM To: rov...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [GNC] Transaction Report << offline >> On 12/8/2022 6:33 PM, rov...@comcast.net wrote: > Michael, > Hope this explains it better > > > There are two accounts in the transaction report > > Expense Type A/Payable > Income Type Bank > Some fundamentals of double entry accounting. Take a MUCH harder look at "Income Type Bank". Part of your problem is with the "subtypes" being allowed (both by standard accounting and gnucash. There are only three FUNDAMENTAL types, Asset, Liability, and Equity. The other types will actually be under one of those. In this case you have A/P and Bank. Bank would be under Assets. A/P under Liabilities. Neither is of type Income or Expense. When you purchased each item or otherwise incurred the expense that transaction was a debit to the particular expense and a credit to A/P. The normal balance of a liability is credit, so you were INCREASING pour payables balance. When you paid each of these using the bank card that was a debit to A/P (reduces the temporary debt) and a credit to the bank account (reduces the bank account balance). Nothing to do with any expenses, you bought with debt and now you are paying that debt off (transfer between asset and liability) Your choice to use +/1 as your senses rather than debit/credit. Michael D Novack PS -- please note, even if you are creating the payable and immediately paying the bill in the logical sense still two transaction. Doing it in one means not using A/P so will not show in A/P totals, which I assume is what you want. But do note in a larger business,might be two people doing this, a "purchase clerk" ordering things for the company and creating bills to be paid and somebody else trusted with the company bank account doing the actual paying. _______________________________________________ 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.
