>The output format wasn't very intuitive. I just made some
>changes to try and improve things. Let me know if this makes
>more sense, or if things still seem wrong.
This is much better but I think there is an inconsistency. I have set up
some accounts to track this year's expenses and non-employee income. I
have one account for the income and several sub-accounts under expense.
The report now shows the income balance only in the last column, "Balance."
This is fine because there is no sub-account. Now on the expense accounts
there is a master expense account and several sub-accounts broken down by
type of expense. The master expense account has an amount in the
"(subaccounts)" column as well as in the "Balance" column (it is the
correct same amount). It seems that either the "(subaccounts)" column
should be blank for both master account types (income/expense) or they
should both have an amount. I think both blank makes sense as the column
header is "(subaccounts)."
I have also tried selecting the master expense account for an account
transaction report. This produces a report with nothing but a few zero
amounts. I suspect this is because the expense subaccounts are tranferred
from the main account where I enter all the transactions. Is Gnucash
designed in such a way that I should keep my income accounts separate from
the expense accounts if I want to have an expense breakdown under the main
expense account?
Also, it would be useful to have some more options for the reports. I
remember that in Quicken 3.0 it was possible to do a transaction summary
over a period of time and sub-total by week/month etc. It would be useful,
too, to be able to tag an account ('a la category' in Quicken) as
tax-related or not and then define a tax report that would total all of the
tax related stuff (income and expenses) in one report. This was one of the
things I most liked about Quicken. On January 1 I could do about three
keystrokes and my tax summary was being faxed to my accountant. Or perhaps
it could be made so that the user could select which accounts would be used
for a particular report. That way one could select any tax-related
accounts for a summary.
Printing question:
I tried the check-printing function and got a warning that I needed
gnome-print libraries installed. I have gnome-print-0.12-1 installed. I
looked on rufus for gnome-print stuff and found a few things but there was
no matching gnome-print-devel-0.12-1 for i386. There were matching pairs
of older and newer gnome-print .rpm files but my system complains of
incompatibilities. Is this feature not really implemented yet? Is this
partly a gnome-print incompleteness problem?
Thanks,
David
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