report writer needed: cash available

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Tom Yates <madlists at teaparty.net>:

> I'm a church treasurer, and I use GnuCash for keeping the church's books.
> I need a particular kind of report.  Specifically, I need one that can run
> through an expense or income category (eg, Church Hall Hire) and summarise
> income and expenditure, almost all of which are split transactions, by
> following the split to the memo in the transaction in the bank account
> category.

Just so I understand what you're asking -- you want to take a look
at a particular expense account and you want to get totals of that
particular expense based on the Transaction Description?  The transaction
report can ALMOST do this -- there's an option to "sort"
by a secondary key (e.g. the Description), and there appears to be
an option to make subtotals Secondary Subtotals (subtotals based on
the secondary key), but that option seems to be greyed out.  If it
weren't greyed out, it might do what you want.

> I am no programmer, and I have no idea how to do this.  Is anyone willing
> to write this report for me, in exchange for a reasonable amount of money?
>
> I'd expect the report itself to be released under the GPL.  In order to be
> sure it worked I would expect to have to send you the live church accounts
> for development and testing, which means (a) you'd have to sign a
> confidentiality agreement and (b) you'd have to be inside the EU (data
> protection).
>
> If anyone interested in taking this task on could drop me a line, I'd very
> much appreciate it.

-derek

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