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Bug 796844 - Amount column of Customer Report should net Credits and Debits
Summary: Amount column of Customer Report should net Credits and Debits
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Reports (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2
Hardware: PC Windows
: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: reports
QA Contact: reports
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Reported: 2018-09-06 14:50 EDT by rassrq.misc
Modified: 2021-09-23 17:50 EDT (History)
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Description rassrq.misc 2018-09-06 14:50:44 EDT
In a Customer Report, each row of the Amount column only copies the non-blank column (a Credit or Debit) to its left.  This adds no information or insight.  What I believe almost all users would want is to see the running balance, the sum of all Credits and Debits through this row;  so if the credits and debits completely offset, then the Amount is $0, and a non-$0 amount shows the net owed or credit.

Either the Amount column should be fixed [or fixed and renamed (to "Net" or "Balance", for example)] or else please add an additional "Net" or "Balance" column which does this and allow the Amount column to not be displayed.
Comment 1 bvl57 2019-05-16 18:27:28 EDT
This also applies to version 3.5
Comment 2 Christopher Lam 2019-11-15 00:02:50 EST
There's a replacement Customer Report in the upcoming 3.8 release with this fixed. It is still beta in the Experimental reports submenu. Please try a recent build and feed back.

https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/

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