Printing Reports with a date range

[David T.]

If you have separate accounts for the different jobs, you can easily set up a report to do this. I suggested the TXF report, which is quite effective for tallying up accounts by tax code line. This report depends on your linking particular accounts up with lines in the tax code (I am assuming you're in the US) by setting the tax options under Edit->Tax Options, but once they're set up, it all works very nicely.

Alternatively, you could create a Transaction report where you select the accounts you're interested in, subtotaled by account. You have the option of including transaction detail or not.

David

--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Brian <brianvon at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brian <brianvon at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Printing Reports with a date range
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com, "'GNU Cash User'" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, "'Tommy Trussell'" <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 12:17 PM
> Thanks for your responses. I have noticed that some of the
> reports give a
> start and end date and some don't. Unfortunately the
> ones that do not are
> the reports I would most like. Does anyone have suggestions
> on how to print
> out information that gives a yearly tally of accounts in
> the general ledger?
> I would like to take these totals sorted by year to my tax
> preparer and say
> here is the amount I earned from job 1, job 2, job 3. Here
> are my expenses
> for phone, auto, gambling etc...
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Brian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David T. [mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:41 AM
> To: Brian; GNU Cash User; Tommy Trussell
> Subject: Re: Printing Reports with a date range
> 
> 
> Brian, the problem you're having is due to the fact
> that the Account Summary
> and Balance Sheet reports are both reports that give you
> the account status
> ***on a given date***. With these reports, the start date
> is not needed,
> since the report is only meant to tell you what's there
> as of a certain
> date.
> 
> If you choose pretty much every other report (check out
> especially the TXF
> report and the generic Transaction Report), you will see
> that they have both
> dates on the options tab.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/8/09, Tommy Trussell
> <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Printing Reports with a date range
> > To: "Brian" <brianvon at hotmail.com>,
> "GNU Cash User"
> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> > Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 5:23 AM
> > Replying/copying to the list: I just noticed you
> didn't
> > respond to the
> > LIST. be sure to cc the list in all your replies (as
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> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Brian
> > <brianvon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Version 2.2.9 on windows XP version 2002 service
> pack
> > 3. I've tried running
> > > the balance sheet and the account summary. Same
> issue
> > with both.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tommy Trussell
> [mailto:tommy.trussell at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:16 PM
> > > To: Brian
> > > Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > > Subject: Re: Printing Reports with a date range
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Brian
> > <brianvon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Hi. I'm trying to print reports for my
> 2008
> > taxes. Under preferences I've
> > >> selected accounting period as 1/1/08 to
> 12/31/08.
> > I've been selecting the
> > >> date range under options as a 12/31/08 and
> > I've tried previous year end.
> > >> Despite this I keep getting 2007 records in
> my
> > reports. Heeelllp.
> > >
> > >
> > > What version of GnuCash? What operating system?
> Which
> > reports have you
> > > tried?
> > >
> > >
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