Which report am I looking for?

[David T.]

Tracy,

About the closest I could get is to create a transaction report for the account, sorted by date (subtotal monthly) and then by description (no subtotal allowed).

David

> On Jan 16, 2017, at 8:23 AM, Tracy <tracy at arisiasoft.com> wrote:
> 
> I've poked a bit at the reports menu, but I can't find one that really does what I'm looking for - either that, or I can't figure which one to customize (and what customization would be needed) to produce the information I am looking for...
> 
> What I am trying to do is to produce a report against a single expense account, subtotaled by "Description" and broken down by month over the selected period.
> 
> For example, let's say we are looking at Expense.Dining, for transactions over the last year. I would like to have a monthly breakdown on each Description entry (for example, a total for each month for all the transactions with Description "McDonalds", "Burger King", etc... Something like:
> 
> January:
> 
>    McDonalds      $274.52
> 
>    Burger King     $192.33
> 
>    <etc>
> 
> February:
> 
>    McDonalds    $192.17
> 
>    Burger King   $62.81
> 
>    <etc>
> 
> March:
> 
> 
> And so on....
> 
> So which of the reports should I look at, and what suggestions can you offer for customizing it to produce a report of this nature?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
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