Question on reports

[Maf. King]

On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 08:09, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> it has been a while now that I am happily using Gnucash to ENTER my
> expenses and other financial data.
>
> A few weeks ago my wife asked me to understand how much we have spent on
> our summer vacation.
>
> I tried with the reports but could not quite obtain what I needed.
>
> Here follows a description of what I'd like to achieve.
>
> Thank you for any help.
> Bob
>
> Vacations go from date X (5 Aug 2005) to date Y (25 Aug 2005).
> In this timeframe I would like a figure of how much I spent.
> Spending includes the credit cards and the ATM (I can ignore some cash I
> had in the beginnings).
> ATM shows up as withdrawals from my banking account.
> Credit cards have their own Liabilities account.
> What I spent through the credit card also shows up in the expense
> category and it's subcategories.
> Bars, pies etc. are not that interesting. I'd like to have numbers.

Hi Bob,

How about a "transaction report" - use the options to set the date range to 
the period X -> Y, and select the accounts of interest (Bank, Credit Card 
etc)

Is that any help?

Maf.