Transaction Report
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jul 14 11:40:02 EDT 2010
Colin,
"Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:
> If I enter a simple transaction like this:
>
> <date> <ref no> "Cheques Received"
> <income account> "multiple payers" <credit> £157.60
> <bank account> <debit> £157.60
>
> then on a Transaction Report for the bank account the details appear
> pretty much as above. Specifically, under "other account", the report
> prints the income account name.
>
> However, I often, for clarity of the accounts, enter transactions with
> multiple splits referring to the same account. For example, the above
> transaction might well be entered like this:
>
> <date> <ref no> "Cheques Received"
> <income account> <first payer name> <credit> £100.00
> <income account> <second payer name> <credit> £ 57.60
> <bank account> <debit> £157.60
>
> When _this_ transaction is printed on the bank account's Transaction
> Report, then under "other account" it simply prints "split" instead of
> the accout name. Now, in single-line format that is fairly reasonable -
> after all, what else could one do? However, in mult-line format then it
> ought really to print the other account names, even when that account
> name appears more than once, as here. As it stands, the transaction
> report is actually pretty useless for what I need it for (which is as a
> printed record of the year's transacions for use by the auditors), as
> once printed it does not give the reader sufficient information to follow
> every movement through the system.
You can do what you want in the transaction report. You need to set
General -> Style = Multi-Line and then you need to turn on Display ->
Account Name. Do NOT turn on Display -> Other Account Name.
You can choose whether or not to turn off Display -> Use Full Account
Name? The Use Full Other Account Name? has no effect in this
configuration.
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-derek
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