Credit card and cash-flow

[Robert C. Ramsdell III]

The dardest thing happened.  I was going to suggest that you just run a
transaction report.  But when I tried it, I get a "Report Error: An
error occurred while running the report.  The error persists regardless
of the date or account options.  (I'm runniong 1.8.1 on a stock redhat
9.0 system).

Robert

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 13:09, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem. I am keeping our home accounting in GNUCash with the
> current file beginning sometimes in the March of 2003. I was asked
> yesterday by my beloved wife how much we spent on particular types of
> items. "Wonderful", I said to myself, "finally the hours I spent typing
> data in Gnucash will pay for!". Well, I cannot say that it is what
> happened. See attached Cash-flow report (used as an advice from gmane.org
> search of this newsgroup; BTW, the Czech is badly broken, but that's
> another issue, which I do not want to deal with now). After looking through
> the report I was quite surprised, that we spent just $18.40 on Dining,
> because I am positive that we spent much more than that. I thought that and
> my only conclusion is that GNUCash included all these expenses under the
> account Liabilities/Accounts Payable/Credit Card, which is partially
> correct (I paid most of our dining with the credit card), but generally
> speaking it is very much misleading, because of course I want the the
> credit card payments to be spread into different Expense accounts.
> 
> Other problem which I was not able to solve is that what I would actually
> like to get is a monthly average on the individual accounts for the given
> period. I have searched this group extensively, but basically the only
> answer I've found is that I've got a tough luck and that it is not useful.
> However, it seems to me that such report would be incredibly useful for any
> budgeting. I am non-programmer, but I have written good number of small
> scripts (Bash, Python, mainly). Yes, I know that it is a  Lisp-like Scheme
> (and I hate zillion of nested parenthesis), but if it means just to add
> couple of defuns into some existing report, that I think I could try to do
> it. So, if there is some non-difficult way how to mangle the current report
> to do that I would love to make an effort to do it -- any suggestions where
> to begin?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any answer,
> 
>  Matej
> 
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