Total transactions by Description

[Anthony Dardis]

I just opened a bug report this morning:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637740

If you would like to add your comments that could be helpful.




On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:06:47 -0500, Rich Stanton <richstanton at gmail.com>  
wrote:

>>
>> Was one of them new, that is, unreconciled? There is a bug involving  
>> that.
>>
>
> There does indeed seem to be a bug with the unreconciled transaction.   
> If I edit my search dates such that I only include reconciled  
> transactions, then the 'Total debits' and 'net change' values are the  
> same, and equal the total for all the searched for transactions.  Total  
> credits does not appear in the report.  As soon as there is an  
> unreconciled transaction in the search results this goes wrong; it seems  
> that total debits shows the total for reconciled transactions, total  
> credits shows the total for the unreconciled transaction, and net change  
> shows debits minus credits.
>
> Is this the expected behaviour, or should I report a bug?
>
>> On Dec 19, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Rich Stanton <richstanton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >>> Is there an easy way to do this?  I want to summarise expenses to  
>> one
>> >>> particular company over a certain time period.  E.g. if I want to  
>> know
>> > how
>> >>> much money I spent at Tesco's in the last year.  I can search, which
>> > shows
>> >>> individual transactions, but there's no total.  I can get totals by
>> >>> account
>> >>> (e.g. how much did I spend on groceries) but I want to just search  
>> for
>> > one
>> >>> company.  I'm aware of the macro to pull money data in OOO base, but
>> >>> wondered if there was an easier way before I go re-inventing the  
>> wheel!
>> >>
>> >> Search for transactions to pick out the exact set of transactions  
>> you want
>> >> (including a date), and then run Reports -> Account Report from the
>> >> resulting register window.  It will show you the totals you want.
>> >
>> > Thanks - it looks as though that's what I'm after, but the totals  
>> don't add
>> > up.  For example I did my search & it found 3 entries for £102.50  
>> each.  For
>> > each entry there was £102.50 going out of my debit or credit card  
>> account,
>> > and £102.50 going in to the groceries account.  This should give a  
>> total of
>> > £307.50.  But total debits = £205, total credits = £102.50 & Net  
>> change =
>> > £102.50.
>> >
>> > Have I misunderstood something?
>> >
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