This post is more-or-less for the elders of the forum....those who have a lot of experience with GC and double-entry accounting....
Was reporting on charitable giving for the current year, using the Transaction Report. Tried to determine how to subtotal on Description; couldn't determine how and scanned through past threads and found these: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Basic-reporting-Subtotal-by-Description-field-td1421478.html http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/report-of-charitable-contributions-td4461126.html#a4461254 http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Which-report-am-I-looking-for-td4688925.html#a4689235 If I understand the primary points of these threads, it isn't possible to subtotal on Description (without changing the code) and if one really wanted to subtotal on description, they really should not have setup their account like Expense:Charity but rather Expense:Charity:CharityName1, Expense:Charity:CharityName2, etc. The previous authors and myself maybe have thinking too much as to how a Quicken-type program uses reports and not properly how to think this through with proper double-entry accounting. Before reading these threads, it wouldn't have occurred to me to have Expense sub-accounts dedicated to a particular entity, esp if I may use an entity once or twice but never again. It's not that there is a problem with the Transaction Report or even that it "needs work" but rather, my understanding of double-entry accounting was insufficient. Correct? Regards, Andrew Gross -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ 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.
