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Bug 124367 - Wrong Account Summary Report with mixed asset/liability accounts
Wrong Account Summary Report with mixed asset/liability accounts
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 95551
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Reports
1.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Chris Lyttle
Chris Lyttle
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-11 12:13 UTC by stevenking66
Modified: 2018-06-29 20:38 UTC
See Also:
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Description stevenking66 2003-10-11 12:13:32 UTC 
My bank account is a UK product that lumps my house mortgage, my current 
account, and savings into one big pot. I want to see these components as 
a series of virtual subaccounts within the real account, so I have added 
it to gnucash as follows:.  
 
The parent account has Account Type "Bank". 
 
Its children are: 
Current: Account Type "Bank" 
Savings: Account Type "Asset" 
Mortgage: Account Type "Liability" 
 
The main Accounts display correctly adds these up so that the total is 
Mortgage less the balance in Current and Savings, ie the true net 
balance. 
 
The Account Summary Report simply adds them up, as if they were all 
assets. It makes me look quite rich, but sadly it is incorrect.
Comment 1 Christian Stimming 2003-10-15 08:25:37 UTC 
Yes, the account summary report only works correctly when Asset
accounts are subaccounts of asset accounts, and liability accounts are
only subaccounts of liability accounts. 

I'm not sure whether it is even possible to create a meaningful
balance sheet (i.e. account summary report) when there's a liability
account as subaccount of an asset account. I think there has been some
discussion in a two year old bug but I can't find it atm.
Comment 2 Phil T. Rich 2004-06-25 21:42:14 UTC 
You're probably thinking of bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141791
which has been fixed.

This bug, however, still remains in the Account Summary report:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95551#c4
Comment 3 Phil T. Rich 2004-07-28 05:24:47 UTC 
I have just posted a patch, Bug#95551 comment #5, which should fix this bug.

Please confirm this bug as of gnucash-20040728-010148-cvs.diff.
Comment 4 Derek Atkins 2005-01-29 18:56:51 UTC 
Note that the bug may have only been fixed in CVS HEAD.

I've applied this patch to CVS HEAD (but not 1.8).  Therefore I am going to
close this as a duplicate of 95551 and the I can close 95551 when the code gets
into a release.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95551 ***
Comment 5 John Ralls 2018-06-29 20:38:05 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124367. Please update any external references or bookmarks.