Which report?

[David T.]

Conor--

I was interested in your description of how to create some graph reports. I tinkered around with these reports, never having looked at them before. They are very useful (as you suggest).

It is a little confusing (and bears mentioning) though, that there are separate barchart reports for Assets, Liabilities, Income and Expense, and attempts to use one to select accounts from a different part of the tree (say, expense accounts from the asset barchart) are futile. The report guard refuses to allow the selection to be put in the report. This had me grousing for a while, until I figured out that there were the other ones.

Thanks,
David

--- On Fri, 9/25/09, Conor O'Neill <conor_lists at puddle.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Conor O'Neill <conor_lists at puddle.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Which report?
> To: "Michael Chase" <michael at kooinda.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Friday, September 25, 2009, 12:06 PM
> Michael Chase wrote:
> > I'm wanting to do a "Equity Graph" using my gnucash
> data going back
> > several years.
> > 
> > What I'd like is a graph that shows the total of some
> selected accounts
> > (monthly average) (some assets, some liabilities) to
> give an idea of how
> > overall assets/liabilities are going.
> > 
> > I've never been a big user of the gnucash reports.
> > 
> > Which one should I be looking at to do something like
> this?
> 
> You start off by saying 'Equity Graph'. In which case, this
> might help
> (for tracking investments):
> 
> Go to Reports -> Assets & Liabilities -> Assert
> Barchart.
> Then go into Options, and set the Price Source to be
> 'nearest in time'.
> 
> Finally, adjust the Step Size, and date range, and you
> might like to
> adjust the 'Show Accounts until level' setting in the
> Accounts tab
> inside Options. Probably also want to adjust the Plot Width
> within
> 'Display' too.
> 
> Finally, press 'Apply' (or 'OK'), and you should get
> something useful.
> 
> 
> With variations of your choice of accounts, this should
> also suffice
> perfectly well for normal asset accounts too, but I'm not
> sure how it
> would show liabilities. You can try this yourself and see.
> 
> 
> Conor O'Neill
> 
> -- 
> Conor O'Neill, at home in Bristol, UK
> 
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