amend transactions programmatically

[Marcus Wolschon]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Tarlika Elisabeth
Schmitz<gnucash at numerixtechnology.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> Actually, I started a thread about this problem last year when I was in
> the process of doing my tax return. It is time for a tax return
> again, which reminds me I still have not sorted this.
>
>
> I need to produce a report which lists my gross interest payments and
> groups them by bank account.
>
> Unfortunetely, this is not possible due to the way I entered my
> interest payments. I entered them as a 3-way split:
> - net interest against Asset.Bank.XX
> - gross interest against Income.Interest.Taxable
> - tax deduction against Liabilities.Tax.Deducted
>
> If I had entered the gross interest payment and the tax deduction as
> separate transactions against the bank account, I would be able to
> produce above report.


With the JGnucashViewer/Editor you can select a target-account from
a drop-down list and get and balance of all transactions or all selected
transactions with regard to that account and also the sum of all
increasing and the sum of all decreasing transactions.
This helped my quite a lot in getting some figures out of my Gnucash-file
that where not directly visible using the given account-tree.

Marcus