expense tracking with reports or searches?

[Tom K. Weckstrom]

       Hello!

I started using GnuCash 1.4.4 last week.
I use it for personal purposes - mainly to track my financial expenses, but
also income.
I have quite a long account structure for expenses (three levels in
hierarchy, about 30 expense accounts).

So, a couple of questions:

1) I can see the sum of the lower level expense accounts in the balance of a
higher level expense account. I want to track expenses by month, week,
quarter, and year, at least.
For example, I have a hierarchy of expense accounts:
- Transportation
---- Car
-------- Gasoline
-------- Repairments
-------- ...
---- Bus tickets
---- ...

Now, how to get a report on Transportation expenses from August 2000?
What about Car expenses only from June to September 2000?
- The Find functionality does not show any sum rows in the search result
report. :-(
- The general account list only shows the total balance (including all the
transactions) but I only want to see to some of them.


2) I also have an improvement suggestion:
When making a search for transactions, I'd prefer that marking a high level
account would automatically also include the lower level accounts under the
high level account to the search. Currently, if I make a search for the Car
expense account, only transactions inserted to that particular high level
account will be searched.


Thanks for your help in advance.

Regards,
                    Tom


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