simple expense report

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Aug 29 14:24:54 EDT 2007


Hi,

Quoting Adrian Mariano <adrian at mitre.org>:

> I'm wondering if there is a report that can give me a list of net flow
> into a selected set of accounts.
>
> The "cashflow" report appears to be the closest match to this, but I
> don't want flow in listed on a separate list from flow out, I just want
> one number, the total flow in.  I took a look at cash-flow.scm and it
> looks like it'll take a while to understand everything that's going on
> in there, so trying to modify it to do what I want is going to be a big
> job.
>
> Did I miss some report that might be closer to what I want?  (It just
> crossed my mind that maybe I'd be better off starting with the expense
> bar chart or pie chart and trying to change just the output form.  I
> haven't looked at those.)
>
> I have gnucash 2.0.5 if that matters.

No, there's no report that does exactly what you want.  The Cash Flow
is the closest thing.  If you set it to only be that one account it should
give you a net total, the "Difference".  This would be the number you want.

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-derek

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