Hi Maf That's just what I was looking for - thanks.
As a best practice, is it better to keep all accounts in one GC File, or to split across many? e.g. should I have one File for wife's account, one for mine, one for joint etc? Regards Matt On 12/07/17 10:49, Maf. King wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 09:19:01 BST Matthew wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am relatively new so am trying to understand some of the concepts. >> >> I have created a single Gnucash file for my household accounts. So this >> includes my personal account, my wife's personal account and our joint >> account. >> >> I want to produce a report which shows the income / expenditure for my >> wife's account only. However, the report I use will show combined >> Expense accounts (ie those which are written to by other accounts). >> >> For example 'Expenses:Food': both my personal account and my wife's >> personal account have recorded expenses against 'Expenses:Food', so how >> do I separate only the expenditure by my wife in this category? I guess >> it cannot be done without separate Expense accounts, which indicates >> that perhaps I should use a different File altogether, instead of trying >> to combine multiple accounts into one file. What is the best practice? >> >> Regards >> >> Matt >> > Hi Matt, > > welcome to GC & the list. > > Without looking at GC (so the option names may not be quite right) > > Transaction Report... pull up the options... first tab... > > Select Accounts you want to report on (ie Expenses:Food etc) > > Then the magic... > > Filter By... Wife's Bank Account > and set Include Txns from selected accounts > > There may be other ways too, such as report on expenses, then subtotal by > "other account" in the sorting tab. > > HTH, > Maf. > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
