On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/17/2025 5:18 PM, Tim via gnucash-user wrote: > > I have been wishing that there were a way to configure a report that > would > > include the total of each account plus all of its children. Quicken used > to > > do this routinely. Is there already an easy way to do this or is this a > wish > > list item? > > > > Thanks > > > > Tim > > You didn't sat WHAT report you want. So I'll give an example. > > Say the Income Statement (aka Profit and Loss .. or as an organization > would say Statement of Revenues and Expenses). You run the report (with > whatever default settings) and then use Edit=>Report Options. You can > then select the totaling behavior that you want (whether subtotaling, > appearing where, etc. are available options) > > Might I suggest that folks new to gnucash try running all the reports > they will want to use, and explore Edit=>Report Options to see what > options are available, what they do. Then use the options you like. > When I first ran GnuCash (and even a bit today), I was intimidated by the reports. When I just ran a report, it was empty. Then I tried adding all of the accounts and everything came out zero. It would be very helpful if (and maybe there already is) there was a place that would say what would be the usual or common options for the reports. For example, I think the transaction report should include all the expense accounts. Just a bit of guidance would be incredibly helpful. I'm sure that there are other reports that would be helpful, but I don't know if I should select everything, or just the asset accounts, or the income accounts, or.... (and so on). Another very nice addition would be if I could tell Gnucash to use "all expense accounts" and automatically add new ones that I add... sometimes, I go quite a while without an account in a report. Alternatively, if I bring up a report and the list of accounts has changed since it was last saved, it could alert me to check the accounts. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
