The short answer is, "you can't." 'Jobs' aren't quite what the name
implies. Rather, think 'Purchase Order'.
There are various use cases the 'Jobs' feature does not work for:
Multiple Customers (and even split with stock orders) for the same Job.
Yeah, I know this sounds weird, but if a Job is really just a PO, it is
not un-common to place a single PO with a Vendor that covers not only
items for multiple customers, but also for stock inventory.
The Job assigned to a Vendor and the Job assigned to a Customer are
*not* the same 'job' despite them both having the same 'job name'.
The intended use case is extremely limited.
There are several other threads about job/project/property reporting.
Other than using outside software entirely, you have perhaps 4 options:
1. Create special expense/income accounts for each job/project/property
and only include those in the relevant reports. The drawback is
cluttering your CoA, especially if such special accounts aren't
on-going. (easier for rental properties, less so for one-offs)
2. Use your own 'tags' in various fields to identify what
job/project/property the expense/revenue applies to. Then use the
Transaction Report, exporting to a spreadsheet if needed to make it
pretty the way you want.
3. Modify the P&L/Income Statement to use the report Option to filter
based on various fields like the Transaction Report can. (the included
P&L doesn't have this option)
4. Craft your own entirely custom report that uses these 'tags'.
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I say 'tags' because GnuCash doesn't have that as an established
feature. You'd simply include text with an identifier like '@' '#' et
cetera before the tag text and put that tag in one of the 'Description'
'Notes' 'Memos' or 'Action' fields as you find useful.
Regards,
Adrien
On 9/21/21 1:26 AM, Christian Peritore wrote:
Looking everywhere for this function but can't seem to find it.
How to connect a given Job to any Expense? Then how to Report a Job's net
profit (and connected total Expenses and total Income)?
Entering Expenses doesn't seem to offer a Job to spend against. I presume I
need to bring the Expense into an Invoice manually? Ok...
But then how to view the total of Expenses for a given Job, thus it's net
profit?
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