Specifically, Income Statement (Multicolumn) and Balance Sheet (Multicolumn) 
Reports

I’m currently using GnuCash 5.5 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1. As I have done for 
years now, I’m preparing year-end reports using Income Statement (Multicolumn) 
and Balance Sheet (Multicolumn) from the Reports menu. I have assigned Account 
Codes to Placeholder accounts so they sort in an informative order instead of 
alphabetically by account name. I’m seeing new, strange behavior this year. 
When I open the Income Statement (Multicolumn) report it defaults to the 
current period 2024 (income and expenses from 1/1/2024 to current date) and the 
Placeholder accounts sort by Account Codes as expected. When I use “Options” to 
edit the start and end of period to 1/1/2023 and 12/31/2023 and “Apply”, the 
sort order of Placeholders changes to alphabetical. A similar thing happens 
with the Balance Sheet (Multicolumn) report.

This is new behavior. I have been using these reports for years including when 
they were under the Experimental heading. I was using Gnucash 4 last January 
(probably 4.13 as I usually keep up to date) without this problem. Curiously, 
when I open a saved report configuration from last year, the Placeholders sort 
by Account Code but if I edit the dates using Options, that report also changes 
to alphabetical sorting.
Additional experimenting shows that any change to report dates triggers this 
behavior. This behavior does not occur with the non-Multicolumn Income 
Statement or Balance Sheet in my limited testing.

Has anyone else seen this or is there a configuration parameter somewhere that 
I am missing? I suspect this may be a bug in Gnucash 5.

Best Regards,
Paul 

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