Account Report options

[Derek Atkins]

HI,

Quoting Kent Rasmussen <kent_rasmussen at sil.org>:

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> I've noticed a couple cool reports, that give info on the account
> you're looking at: Account Report and Account Transaction Report.
> But I'm not sure that I'm understanding them, so maybe someone can
> help me out. The first is a list of everything in (and out of) the
> account. The second one seems to be just the current transaction.
> I'm not sure that I see the point of the second, unless someone
> needs a formatted page with info on a transaction?
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> But I'm writing because neither report seems to have many
> configurable options. Just a "Display" tab, where I can change which
> columns are present, and a "General" tab, where I can change some of
> how it looks.  But the transactions aren't modifiable (e.g., sorting
> and filtering), as they are on the "Transaction Report".
>
> Perhaps what I'm looking for is the Transaction Report, but with the
> ability to know/guess that I'm looking for a report on the active
> account.  Somehow I can't bring myself to hunting through the gui on
> the options page for the account I'm already looking at, each time I
> want an account summary. Am I whining?  Is this already there, and I
> haven't figured it out?

The Account Report is a printable version of the current Register.
Think of it as a "Print this register" and "print this transaction"
feature.  To change the report you must first change the register
configuration.  If you want to change the date of the report, change
the date of the register and re-run the report.  If you want to change
the set of transactions based on the reconciliation flag, change
the register then re-run the report.

> I really like Gnucash's account structures, as far as the hows and
> whys of what it does.  I just need to be able to navigate it and
> extract the information I need, when, e.g., I need to know how much
> I've spent on groceries the last several quarters.

P&L Report?

> Kent

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-derek

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