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  1. Account Transactions Report - Running Balance calculation

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    Gaining Support  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

    Thanks for your feedback here, community.

    Right now the way the running balance in the Account Transactions report works is that it shows a cumulative balance for each account group.

    The report must include the Debit and Credit columns for the running balance to work.

    It's based on the chronological order of transactions when the report first loads. So if you sort by another column, click Update to refresh the running balance.

    We appreciate the difference in how you'd like this calculated here, but want to be upfront this isn't something we have plans to change at present.

    We're keeping a close eye on interest around this way of calculating here If there is any plan made we'll let you know.

    Bruce Eadie supported this idea  · 
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    Bruce Eadie commented  · 

    The Account Transactions report, following a programming change in June 2026, now provides incorrect totals where there is a mix of revenue (credit) and expense (debit) values. In effect the credit values - which are shown without brackets - are treated as debit values in the overall report totals n.b. credits for expense accounts, shown with brackets, are dealt with correctly within the report totals. Having raised this with support, I've been told that this is a 'feature' of the report and to use/develop a different report (GL Details report) instead. Be wary using any report totals!