Account reports on account groups

[Anthony W. Youngman]

I don't seem to be able to find out how to export *data* in a sensible 
form from gnucash. Okay, I've only skimmed the two manuals, but they 
don't seem to cover it, and I've searched the archive and it didn't find 
it according to my search criteria.

Basically, the format I want is what I get doing an "account report" on 
an account. But I want to get an account report on an account group! And 
the only thing I seem able to get is a double-entry ledger which has the 
information I want (in ONE line) spread across multiple lines, and mixed 
up with a load of information I don't want.

To give an example, under "Income", I've got "Subscriptions", and under 
that I've got "Spring Term", "Summer Term" and "Autumn Term". Makes my 
life a lot easier when I'm tracking money coming in. But when I want to 
audit it, I don't care about which term, I just want a report at the 
"Subscriptions" level.

As I see it, I've currently got two options:
1) go into each term in turn, run the report and export it, then combine 
the exports in Excel or Calc. This isn't too bad with three subgroups, 
but it could get very messy as in some cases I have a lot more ...
or 2) in this case, the double entry always goes to petty cash or cheque 
book, so I can run the report on those, export and combine them, and 
then filter on "Income:Subscriptions:*"

It's not too difficult to get round it ... but I'd like to be able to do 
what I want (get a single-entry ledger) without too much hassle. Pretty 
much all of the gnucash reports are double-entry and would be a pain in 
the neck for me to massage into the format I need.

Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - anthony at thewolery.demon.co.uk