how to view total for expenses subaccount

[Girard Aquino]

Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> Girard Aquino wrote:
>
>> Hi. I need help trying to produce a report for our monthly expenses 
>> for one of the Expenses subaccounts. I don't have any problems with 
>> transactions I pay for using my debit/checking account because this 
>> is easily tracked by Reports>Income&Expense>Cash Flow. My problem is 
>> with transactions i pay for using my credit card. When iIdownload my 
>> CC transaction history they all go to liabilities>CC, and I transfer 
>> the CC transactions to their respective Expenses subaccount such as 
>> Groceries, Dining, Auto>Gas, etc....
> Correct --- you "book" the expense as the liability is assumed (date 
> of the credit card transaction)
>
>> Then when I pay for the CC bill for the month, I use my 
>> checking/debit which lowers my liabilities. But then, I lose track of 
>> how much of the liability in CC went to what Expenses subaccount.
>>
> Why? Can't see how you lose anything here. You are paying off part (or 
> all) of the liability (credit card debt). At this time there is no 
> connect to how/why the liability came into existence.
I see your point there. But I would like to keep track of how much we 
are spending on each of the Expenses subaccounts (i.e. Groceries) for 
the current month. So while I am able to transfer and therefore 
categorize the CC transactions into the different Expenses subaccounts, 
I am not able to track how much of the money from my checking which goes 
into paying the Liabilities>CC actually goes into what Expenses 
subaccount. This is because a CC bill of 600, simply shows as a single 
CC payment from checking into Liabilities>CC. But how much of that 600 
went into Groceries, Gas, etc... I cannot view (or cannot figure out 
how, until now) using the reports (Thank you Robert!!!)
>
>> Or one could say that I lose track of how much of the CC payment went 
>> to what Expenses subaccount. I was trying to view how much we were 
>> spending on groceries for the month, but realized the report I 
>> produced with Reports>Income&Expense>Cash Flow was inaccurate because 
>> of this. Any tips on how to go about this? Thank you.
>>  
>>
> Again, unsure of what you perceive as the problem. Money is considered 
> "fungible" (freely exchangeable). The amount of expense you have for 
> "groceries" for the month has nothing to do with whether you paid for 
> these groceries with cash out of your pocket, a check, by assuming 
> credit card debt, etc. If you actually are losing transactions, you 
> need to try to explain to us where that appears to be happening.
>
> Michael
>
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