> >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)."
Ok, how about now?
> 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?
Right now, the transaction report only handles single accounts, and
doesn't handle subaccounts. Your 'master' expense account doesn't have
any transactions in it, so the report was empty.
dave
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