Extracting useful information for tax returns (David T.)

[David T.]

Alex--

I'll check out the options for accounts to include; I hadn't thought of that! :O

As for the Notes, it seems to me that the notes that are being included are a different set of notes than I get to see in the typical register window. I'd have less objection to including the regular notes, rather than these hidden import transaction notes. Regardless, one should be able to toggle them on or off.

As an aside, I wonder where these technical notes are stored, and how a user could choose to see them in other contexts; it's a little weird to have data that is so hidden from the user.

David

--- On Wed, 4/8/09, J. Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: J. Alex Aycinena <alex.aycinena at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Extracting useful information for tax returns (David T.)
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 11:22 AM
> David:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:54 AM, David T.
> <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Alex--
> >
> > Yes, I am using the new TXF report. I do like this
> report a lot. For my purposes, I would prefer the TXF report
> to default to the account summary level, which provides a
> nice summary for my accountant (who is not using the TXF
> file, but rather the reports).
> >
> > For the details, I prefer to focus on those areas
> where my accountant wants more specificity; that is, the
> accounts where I have to provide verification. My accountant
> doesn't need to see transaction level detail for my
> paycheck tax accounts, since I get a W2 for these. If my
> numbers match the W2, all is good (and my books have one
> area of support for their reliability), and my accountant
> doesn't need to see more.
> >
> > For my charitable contributions, however, the
> accountant wants line by line information, just to be sure
> I'm solid with my numbers.
> >
> 
> I understand. The Tax Report either shows transaction
> detail for all
> accounts selected or it doesn't for all accounts
> selected. That is, it
> can't show transaction detail for some selected
> accounts but not for
> others in the same run. That would be complex to add, I
> think. You
> could use two runs of the report though, one with all the
> accounts
> selected and no transaction detail, and a second run with
> just the
> accounts selected that you want details for and with
> transaction
> detail set. The totals of that second report would tie to
> the first
> for those accounts and provide the detail.
> 
> > The TXF detail report includes all the tax-related
> accounts, which is too much in this circumstance. In
> addition, the TXF report includes a notes column that I do
> not want, and cannot seem remove from the options. This
> column gives me a note field that never appears anywhere
> else, with technical information about the imported
> transactions. Thus my custom report.
> >
> 
> You don't have to print 'all the tax-related
> accounts'; you can select
> to print a subset of them through the options. Yes it
> includes the
> 'notes' field with no option to remove.
> 
> > HTH,
> > David
> >
> 
> Alex