account transaction reports

[Doug Laidlaw]

A split transaction in the credit card account should be identifiable in each 
expense account involved as coming from the credit card, because at that 
"end" of the transaction it isn't a split.  Can you achieve your purpose by 
doing a filtered report from each expense account? (not so convenient, I 
know.)

Doug.

On Fri,  2 Nov 2001 14:44, you wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:57:21PM -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> > I discovered a very useful (almost) type of report: filtered account
> > reports. I was trying to answer my wife's question about why the credit
> > card bill was so high this month; what did we charge on the card? So
> > naturally, I started looking at the transaction reports. It turns out
> > that it's not too hard to get GnuCash to print a report of your
> > transactions, sorted by which other account the charges went to. Great!
> > Well, almost. The problem is the split transactions. GnuCash treats
> > "split transaction" as if it were another account. What I want it to do,
> > of course, is take the individual splits and report those in the
> > accounts they belong to. When I do the report, about 30% of the total
> > charges on the credit card were split transactions, and therefore don't
> > show up in the actual expense accounts. This renders this report pretty
> > much useless. SO I tried using filtered accounts, selecting all the
> > expense accounts and running the "include transfers to/from filtered
> > accounts" filter. THis eliminates the split transactions from showing up
> > as a separate expense account, but it's still not counting the amounts
> > from the individual splits. Is there some way to get GnuCash to do what
> > I want? I am running the out-of-the-box 1.6.2 version that comes with
> > Red Hat 7.2
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Greg
>
> First, thanks for the earlier report.  I had recently gotten RH 7.2,
> but not installed gnucash during the initial install.  I got it later
> from the CD and tried to install it; it would not go, complaining of
> a Guppi dependancy.  I looked on both binary cd's for Guppi, and did
> not find it, tried Guppi off of gnucash.org (failed, of course) and
> gave up, thinking Redhat must have screwed it up.  Your post made me
> go back and look again for Guppi (it was there).  So I have the new
> version, after all.
>
> To respond to your question...
>
> In gnucash 1.4, I used the Transaction Report to answer the type of
> questions you are talking about.  After playing with 1.6 for a little
> while, it seems that the profit and loss reports are so improved,
> that I will be using them, instead.  Do they do what you want?
>
> - Mike Sabin
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