Analytical accounting with gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Roland Orre <roland.orre at gmail.com>:

> Has anyone performed analytical accounting with gnucash?
>
> What we want to do is to keep track of income/costs/assets per project
> so we could easily get a balance and result report per project, as well
> as in total.
>
> I guess that  this is what jobs are for, so each project gets a job name
> and a project number, but I haven't understood how to be able to
> create e.g. account summary or other reports listed per project.

Yes, this is what Jobs are for.  However the per-job reporting hasn't
been finished (or even started), which is why you don't understand
how to do it ;)

> I'm new to gnucash but I guess I have to do some scheme programming
> for this to work. I'm well experienced in scheme so this is not the problem
> but has anyone done something like this an can hint about how to start
> or tell if this is the best way to do it. (the version 1.8.12 could 
> possibly be
> be a problem as well, as I noticed that 2.2 was available).

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports

> Roland Orre

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-derek

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