What ACCOUNT BALANCES have a Description, Memo, or Notes? You are
talking about TRANSACTIONS. The reports in question are only dealing
with account balances as they are, not recomputing balances based on
what transactions you wanted included in the balance. You can "filter
ACCOUNTS" (report on all or a subset).
You are wanting to avoid the labor of setting your CoA properly. To let
you combine several accounts. Post transactions to any of these just
into one and "separate later by some filtering rule).
Standard/traditional accounting allows just ONE tree structure for the
ledger << the tags, labels, etc. that you miss are effectively allowing
alternate tree structures to exist >>
Michael D Novack
On 7/27/2026 3:30 PM, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
On 2026-07-27 11:14, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
Assign each trip a unique code/word/ID and ensure that went into the
description field for each expense. That way if a couple of trips
overlapped on dates you could separate them.
Could you say a bit more about what a user would do? I looked in the
options for the Income Statement, and there doesn't seem to be a way to
tell it to filter based on Description, Memo, or Notes.
Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com
On 7/27/26 10:19, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
Assuming this is vacation, not a trip for business, as each expense
occurs I debit Expenses:Vacations, credit the appropriate credit card or
cash account, and put details on the Description line.
I've never wanted a report for this specifically, but if I did I would
filter by dates in the report options.
Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com
On 2026-07-27 10:04, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
Just want to get refresher in how someone would track all expenses -
flights, boarding, individual tariffs, etc. -- related to a trip but
without
creating new account for it and later be able to generate a report per
individual trip to see how much it was.
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