I'm copying this question and answer to the user list, where we have been having quite a discussion about the adequacies and inadequacies of the existing reports. It does seem to be a USER question, after all...
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:16 PM, David T. <[email protected]> wrote: > Suhas-- > > With regard to your request for a summary of one account for a particular > time period: > > 1) Create a transaction report > 2) Open Options > 3) Select only the account you want, and the time range > 4) Optionally, change columns not to display amounts, which will only show > you a total of transactions for the time period. Note that this is not an > "Opening" or "Closing" balance--just a total amount of the transactions in > that account. > > Now, if you want a single report that shows amounts for multiple months for > multiple accounts (as indicated in the original subject line), you *can* > accomplish this, with a little creative thinking. The trick is to use > Gnucash's Budgeting features. > > First, create a Budget that includes the accounts you ultimately want to keep > track of, and a date range that is useful to you. Save this budget. > > Next, create a budget report, and in the options for this report, deselect > the "Show Budget Amounts" check box. The resulting report will list monthly > transaction totals for each account in the budget. > > Cheers, > David > > --- On Wed, 6/30/10, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Geert Janssens <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: monthly summary of accounts >> To: "suhas paranjape" <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:37 AM >> On Wednesday 30 June 2010, suhas >> paranjape wrote: >> > thanks, geert for the prompt response >> > >> > an example: i want a summary of the account `household >> expenses: local >> > travel' between the dates 15 May 2010 to 26 june 2010. >> is there a way of >> > generating that? >> > >> > does that make it clear? and does that make sense? >> > >> What would you want this report to display ? >> * All transactions that happened to/from that account in >> this period ? For >> that you can use the transacton report. >> * Only the difference between the starting and the ending >> balance for that >> account in that period (= cash flow) ? Then you can use the >> cash flow report. >> >> >> Geert >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
