Gnucash Tip

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 3 July 2010, David T. wrote:
> Geert and the List:
> 
> Here is a tip that I put together in regards to creating monthly summary
>  information for multiple accounts:
> 
> To create a single report that shows summary amounts for multiple months
>  for multiple accounts (for example, monthly totals for expense accounts
>  over the course of a year), you can accomplish this with a little creative
>  thinking. The trick is to use Gnucash's Budgeting features.
> 
> First, create a Budget that includes the accounts upon which you ultimately
>  want to base your report and a date range that is useful to you. Save this
>  budget.
> 
> Next, create a budget report, and in the options for this report, deselect
>  the "Show Budget Amounts" check box. The resulting report will list
>  monthly transaction totals for each account in the budget.
> 
> This solution is not perfect (you must, for example, edit the budget to
>  cover the date range you want, and then open the report), buit it does
>  give a spreadsheet-like summary of a subset of accounts by month.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
David, thank you for the first tip !

I have created a new wiki page called "Using GnuCash" [1] that will collect 
them all. Yours in the first in there.

Geert

[1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash