Michael, thank you, all understood, I desire to print out an annual report
that is a compilation of all account transaction entries for the entire year to
use as a reference volume and for double checking accuracy of transactions
assigned to specific accounts. When my EA tax preparer looks at the totals on
the income statement and says such-and-such total seems high what’s different
this year, I can go to this report and look through the transactions I assigned
to that account and see if something sticks out as not belonging there.
Interestingly explaining myself here caused me to confirm the difference of a
general journal report and general ledger and the general journal seems what I
would want except I have the report I was happy with having produced the year
before and it has general ledger at the top. I’ll play around starting with the
general journal to see if I can get what I want starting there.
I change the computer date because it was my understanding (and makes sense)
that is the date the gnucash software program uses when saving backups and
doing it’s thing there. It had a tip to close the program every night or data
saved may not have the correct date when you roll over to a new day so I do it
out of habit now anticipating what else might be affected and am sure to NAME
the file the actual date period of the activity.
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>> On 11/5/2021 11:22 AM, Sharon Sydnor wrote:
>> Gyle, yes thank you I considered that and did set the correct start and end
>> dates and also thought to look to the PREFERENCES of the entire program and
>> there is a place there to also set the start and end dates and select if
>> they are RELATIVE or ABSOLUTE, and I chose the latter. I?ll change to
>> relative and see if it makes a difference although I don?t understand why it
>> would. Also since I do my books ?at one sitting? and block out a period of
>> time and work straight through from Jan to Dec of usually the former year, I
>> change the date and time on the entire computer as well, setting it back to
>> Dec 31 of the required year.
>> Sharon
>>
> I think it might help clarify things if instead of referring to gnucash
> report names you said what reports you wanted in terms of their standard
> accounting names. Thus a "balance sheet" report has a DATE associated
> with it (the :as of" date) while a "statement of income and expenses"
> would have a DATE RANGE (start and stop date of the interval.
>
> BUT --- "I change the date and time on the entire computer as well" is
> not needed. Like most accounting software, gnucash does NOT assume
> either data entry of transactions nor dates for reports are in "real
> time'. You SPECIFY the date/dates.
>
> One oddity that MIGHT be tripping you up is that with gnucash specify
> dates for reports only after they exist! In other words, you first "run"
> the report with whatever default dates present and then use the "edit
