Report with configurable selection of accounts involved in transactions

[Derek Atkins]

I'm afraid that GnuCash doesn't really do what you're looking for.
You could try to run a Transaction report, where in the Accounts tab
of the options you set the Report Accounts to the list of Assets and
Liabilities that you care about, and the Filter Accounts you list the
set of Income and Expenses that you care about...

Your other option is to change the way you configure your accounts
and transactions to make it fit the gnucash modeling easier.  But
I don't know the best way of doing that; gnucash isn't really
designed to handle your situation; it's designed to do a single
set of books at a time.

Can Quicken handle your problem?

-derek

"Olof Hjalmarsson" <olof.hjalmarsson at gmail.com> writes:

> Of the different replies to my post, it seems that you Derek were the one to
> interpret my question correctly (but I deeply appreciate all replies). What I
> would like to get in ONE report is basically the total amount spent on a
> selection of expense accounts, but only include the transactions that also
> includes the asset accounts selected. Preferably the asset accounts involved
> should be summed up on the report grouped by placeholders.
>
> I can say that I have tried (even before my original question) the different
> reports included in the release, but didn't find what I wanted. I just thought
> that users (or developers) with more experience of GnuCash might tell me that
> it could be done.
>
> I guess not then? To bad. Seems like I have to continue with the boring
> excel-sheet. :-)
>
> 2007/10/26, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>:
>
>     Hi,
>    
>     Quoting Olof Hjalmarsson <olof.hjalmarsson at gmail.com >:
>    
>     > I'm in the process of evaluating software to track my familys money, and
>     > right now I feel that GnuCash and Buddi both have most of what I need.
>     > Unfortunately they both seems to miss one very important feature for me
>     (at
>     > least I can't get find a way to do what I want).
>     > Since my girlfriend and I have a "mixed" economy, where we share the
>     > expenses for food and things regarding the car and house, we don't share
>     the
>     > expenses for some private things like my DVD:s or my computer "toys" or
>     her
>     > fashion magazines.
>     > Therefore I would like to be able to get a report that would show which
>     of
>     > our private asset/bank accounts that pays for just a selection of the
>     > expense accounts (i.e the ones we share, and leaving out our private
>     expese
>     > accounts).
>     >
>     > Is it possible to get a report to show some sort of diagram or summed up
>     > list of transactions that involves a selection of expense accounts and a
>     > selection of bank/asset accounts. The selection of accounts has to be
>     > configurable, as well as the date interval.
>    
>     Each report does contain a bunch of report options that let you choose
>     which
>     accounts to include in the report.  HOWEVER, it tends to be ONLY a set of
>     the Asset accounts, or Expense accounts..  Short of the Cash Flow report,
>     I don't think there's any report that will let you choose a subset of
>     Assets AND a subset of Expenses and only report on the union of those
>     choices.
>    
>     The report options also allow you to choose the report dates.
>    
>     > Is this possible? Do I have to dig into custom report creation using
>     Scheme
>     > to acheive this?
>    
>     It depends.  First thing to do is to choose the right report and then
>     go into the report options (click the "Options" button in the toolbar)
>     and play around.  Depending on exactly how you configure your accounts
>     it should be possible.
>    
>     > /Olof
>    
>     > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>     > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>    
>     -derek
>    
>     --
>            Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>            Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available