CashFlow report with a month-by-month display?

[Derek Atkins]

As far as I know nobody is working on this -- but you might want
to ask on gnucash-devel.  Patches (preferably to SVN trunk) would
be appreciated.

-derek

Jeff Smith <jeff at smithicus.com> writes:

> As reported in an earlier email, I'm using GnuCash to try to get a 
> handle on household spending. As part of that, I would dearly love to be 
> able to generate a report that showed each of my expense categories and 
> a month-by-month total for each.
>
> I understand that this could be done by exporting to an Excel 
> spreadsheet, but I figure that if it's useful once, it will be useful 
> regularly. And furthermore, if *I* find it useful, chances are that 
> others will find it useful too.
>
> The existing Cashflow report does what I want, except that it only shows 
> one period at a time. This isn't a complete enough picture for me to get 
> a clear picture of the trends involved, so I'd like to turn it into a 
> multi-column report that shows me each month in a separate column. (And 
> printing out one report for each month in question seems a bit "brute 
> force" to me.)
>
> Since I am not shy about having to write some script code, I figured 
> that I would dig into the engine and try to create one based on the 
> existing cashflow specification. But before I try that, I wondered if 
> somebody might have already done this, or if perhaps there's a way to 
> get what I want interactively, rather than going to code.

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