Profit/Loss Income/Expense

[Nathan Neulinger]

I would very much like something like this - but it could be even
simpler initially. I would implement it myself, but learning enough
scheme to do so is a bit time consuming at the moment. I was considering
just perl+xml to read the accounts file itself.

(Request - It might be nice to be able to hook external processes into
the report generation code - i.e. pass an external process the XML of
the register data, option selection, etc. and read HTML in return.)

Instead of a full fledged cash-flow report, have a single-account
cash-flow report. In options pick the "primary" account for a report,
and the other accounts to show, with depth/etc. just like P&L. 

In the output, for each account, list the amount to/from that account
from the primary account.

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In cases of complicated splits, you'd need to adjust the numbers. For
example, you have a transaction with funds coming from cash and another
account. If you set your primary as the cash account, the outgoing
amount would actually be too large. I was thinking if you have:

>From Account 1: X
>From Account 2: Y
To Account 3: A
To Account 4: B

For primary of account 1, indicate it as:

	From Account 1 To Account 3:  X/(X+Y) * A
	From Account 1 To Account 4:  X/(X+Y) * B

and so forth. That should still give the expected numbers for normal
transactions, but also handles the complicated ones. 

This would not accomplish everything a cash-flow report would, but it
would take care of "where is all the money in my checking account
going", which you can't answer reasonably right now if you have accounts
other than expenses. 

-- Nathan

On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 13:19, Josh Sled wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:59:37PM +0100, Mike Talbot wrote:
> 
> | solution is for GnuCash to provide a cashflow report (I can't believe it 
> | doesn't do this already; cashflow analysis is critical to running a business 
> | & probably more useful than any other report for the home user).
> 
> Indeed, it is.
> 
> | For a cashflow report I should be able to specify which account(s) are my cash 
> | accounts (e.g. my current account and my wife's current account). For a given 
> | period, the report should list the payments (i.e. money that has gone out of 
> | these accounts) and the receipts (i.e. money that has come into these 
> | accounts). Money transferred between these acounts would not show up.
> 
> An interested party could make good use of defined Scheduled Transactions
> to not only provide context for past recurring cashflows, but also to
> project future cashflows.
> 
> I would do this myself, but I'm at my limit as it is; unless someone steps
> up really soon this report will not be in 1.8.0 [maybe 1.8.x, however].
> 
> | At the moment I have to work this out 'manually' but it would be great if 
> | GnuCash could do it for me. Apart from that I think GnuCash is very good - I 
> | use it every day and I've even got my Mum using it!
> 
> Excellent! 
> 
> | Thanks,
> | Mike Talbot
> 
> ...jsled
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