monthly summary of accounts

[suhas paranjape]

dear david

great! will try that and get back to you.

warmly

suhas

On 1 July 2010 02:46, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Suhas--
>
> With regard to your request for a summary of one account for a particular
> time period:
>
> 1) Create a transaction report
> 2) Open Options
> 3) Select only the account you want, and the time range
> 4) Optionally, change columns not to display amounts, which will only show
> you a total of transactions for the time period. Note that this is not an
> "Opening" or "Closing" balance--just a total amount of the transactions in
> that account.
>
> Now, if you want a single report that shows amounts for multiple months for
> multiple accounts (as indicated in the original subject line), you *can*
> accomplish this, with a little creative thinking. The trick is to use
> Gnucash's Budgeting features.
>
> First, create a Budget that includes the accounts you ultimately want to
> keep track of, and a date range that is useful to you. Save this budget.
>
> Next, create a budget report, and in the options for this report, deselect
> the "Show Budget Amounts" check box. The resulting report will list monthly
> transaction totals for each account in the budget.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> --- On Wed, 6/30/10, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>
> > From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> > Subject: Re: monthly summary of accounts
> > To: "suhas paranjape" <suhas.paranjape at gmail.com>
> > Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> > Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:37 AM
>  > On Wednesday 30 June 2010, suhas
> > paranjape wrote:
> > > thanks, geert for the prompt response
> > >
> > > an example: i want a summary of the account `household
> > expenses: local
> > > travel' between the dates 15 May 2010 to 26 june 2010.
> > is there a way of
> > > generating that?
> > >
> > > does that make it clear? and does that make sense?
> > >
> > What would you want this report to display ?
> > * All transactions that happened to/from that account in
> > this period ? For
> > that you can use the transacton report.
> > * Only the difference between the starting and the ending
> > balance for that
> > account in that period (= cash flow) ? Then you can use the
> > cash flow report.
> >
> >
> > Geert
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