Gnucash->Beancount: Retained Losses missing from beancount balance sheet

[Anand Gupta]

After converting from gnucash to beancount I compared the balance sheet from both.

It turns out that Gnucash automatically computes a line item in Equity section called retained loss. It is simply all expenses minus all incomes.

However, beancount balance sheet does not have this line item. As a result, the accounting eqution, 'Assets = Liability + Equity' is unbalanced.

What is the best way to handle this in beancount?

Thanks,
Anand

[Martin Blais]

How are you producing your balance sheet? What tool and options are you using?

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[Anand Gupta]

I just did,

bean-report FILE.beancount balsheet > balsheet.html

However,  I see that when I explore the FILE.beancount using 'bean-web FILE.beancount' and followed by localhost:8080 in the browser, the balance sheet on web-browser works correctly and does not have this problem.

Thanks,

Anand

On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 5:14:22 PM UTC-5, Martin Blais wrote:

How are you producing your balance sheet? What tool and options are you using?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 5:56 PM Anand Gupta <anand....@gmail.com> wrote:

After converting from gnucash to beancount I compared the balance sheet from both.

It turns out that Gnucash automatically computes a line item in Equity section called retained loss. It is simply  all expenses minus all incomes.

However, beancount balance sheet does not have this line item. As a result, the accounting eqution, 'Assets = Liability + Equity' is unbalanced.

What is the best way to handle this in beancount?

Thanks,
Anand

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[Martin Blais]

bean-report was developed before the newer bean-query and does not have options to set a reporting period.

It'll report your balance at the latest time, but IIRC does not open/close for the period, which is what instantiates that transfer.

In any case, bean-report is deprecated (removed in the next version already) and you should use bean-query.

Check out the OPEN AT and CLOSE AT options of the FROM clause for details.

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