Do you not have any accounts set up like 'Petrol', 'Internet', Charity' etc., in you gnucash set up?
On Sun, 11 May 2025 at 13:17, Rich Stanton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I'm in the UK and have all my accounts in GNUCash. I have to do a form > for my accountant every year which includes how much I spent on particular > categories - petrol, internet, charity x/y/z, etc etc - over the previous > tax year. At the moment I'm manually doing a search for each item (date > posted before/after the right dates, in this account, with this > description), then do an account report on the resulting list to get the > total. It works but is long-winded. It seems like there should be an easier > way of doing things. Am I missing anything obvious - is there a specific > report that will give me what I need? > > Is there a way to set up some pre-saved searches that I can run each year > as a batch, but just tweaking the year? > > Or is there a way to nest searches so that I do a search for all > transactions within the given time period, then run a secondary search for > the particular account/description within that, to avoid having to > continually re-search on the same dates? I know I can refine a current > search, but the results replace the original search rather than opening in > a new tab. > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
