Splits in Cash Flow report

[Maf. King]

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 15:25:58 Nowl wrote:
> Sorry to follow up my own post, but please, can anyone comment or help
> with this? To me, incorrectly reported transactions seems a really
> serious flaw, especially as it's not my own money. . . if it's something
> I'm doing wrong, I'd be very grateful to know.

Hi Nowl,

Yes, I see what you mean.  I've made a new test file, with a single txn split 
from checking to 2 expense accounts.  I've attached a couple of screenshots 
of the register and report output,  which may help others on the list 
understand what you mean.

The Cash Flow report when run on just one of those expense accounts does show 
what you describe, with the bottom line (labeled difference) being the actual 
total flow "into" that account.

IANAA, so I'm not sure what is supposed to happen here, hence I'm not sure if 
this is a bug, or if you are bending the purpose of the cash flow report, by 
running it against expense accounts rather than asset/liability accounts 
only.


Sorry I can't be of more help,
Maf. 

>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> >Hello everyone
> >
> >I'm fairly new to GnuCash, so please excuse me if this is a silly
> >question, but I can't work out what is going wrong.
> >
> >I use GC to do the accounts for a small charity and recently had to
> >make up the end-of-year reports. I noticed something odd happening with
> >Cash Flow reports and split transactions.
> >
> >An example: I wrote a cheque withdrawing money from the current bank
> >account to reimburse a committee member. This was split between the
> >Exoenses:Meetings account (for refreshments) and
> >Expenses:Newsletter:Postage account (for buying stamps). Everything
> >shows correctly within GnuCash and the summary line correctly shows the
> >split amount for whichever account is being viewed.,
> >
> >But the Cash Flow report is only correct if run for the account the
> >money was actually taken from (current bank account). If run for
> >Expenses:Newsletter:Postage, it shows the total for the entire
> >transaction coming in to this account, then the amount assigned to the
> >Meetings sub-account going out. Similarly, Cash Flow for
> >Expenses:Meetings shows the whole amount coming in, and this account
> >"paying" the Postage account, which it would never be used for!
> >
> >Have I done something wrong, or is this a peculiarity of the way GC
> >handles splits? I'd be very grateful for any pointers.



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Maf. King
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