Marking mortgage payments as an expense

[David Overton]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:23:02PM -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to mark my mortgage payments as an expense. As a liablality, it
> doesn't show up in the cash flow report which skews the report, IMO. SO
> I create an expense called Mortgage and I put all my mortgage payments
> there. Now, I'd like to reflect the true state of my mortgage liability.
> How would I go about doing that?

The mortgage payment should show up in the cash flow report -- that's
why such a thing as a cash flow report exists distinct from the profit
and loss report.

I've just been trying out 1.7.8 and the new cash flow report does not
seem to have very smart default settings.  It defaults to having all
asset and liability accounts selected as "cash" accounts.  I find it
more useful if you just select accounts that really are "cash" (e.g.
your wallet, bank accounts, etc.).  That way it should show the mortgage
repayment in the "Money Out" section.

Developers: would it be possible to change the default options for this
report so that only accounts labelled as "Cash" or "Bank" (and maybe
"Currency") are selected?


David