Question on reports

[Derek Atkins]

"Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> writes:

> On Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 08:09, Bob Alexander wrote:
>> A few weeks ago my wife asked me to understand how much we have spent on
>> our summer vacation.
>>
>> I tried with the reports but could not quite obtain what I needed.
>>
>> Here follows a description of what I'd like to achieve.
>>
>> Thank you for any help.
>> Bob
>>
>> Vacations go from date X (5 Aug 2005) to date Y (25 Aug 2005).
>> In this timeframe I would like a figure of how much I spent.
>> Spending includes the credit cards and the ATM (I can ignore some cash I
>> had in the beginnings).
>> ATM shows up as withdrawals from my banking account.
>> Credit cards have their own Liabilities account.
>> What I spent through the credit card also shows up in the expense
>> category and it's subcategories.
>> Bars, pies etc. are not that interesting. I'd like to have numbers.
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> How about a "transaction report" - use the options to set the date range to 
> the period X -> Y, and select the accounts of interest (Bank, Credit Card 
> etc)
>
> Is that any help?

I doubt a P&L report will do unless you chose specific accounts for
your vacation.  The transaction report will list everything within a
time period, but you might need to rule out additional transactions
that occurred during the same time-period -- Although you could
certainly rule out things like Expense:Rent so that those kinds of
known-not-vacation transactions are excluded.

So, yea, I'd have to agree that the transaction report is _PROBABLY_
what you want.  The Cash-Flow report MIGHT also be usable..  Maybe..

-derek

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