Account Report on search results

[Anthony Dardis]

Goal: make a report of some expenses to present to my employer for  
reimbursal.


I did a search in the credit card liability account for transactions with  
the relevant description field. I then ran an Account Report.  The Account  
Report lists the results of the search, but some things are (to me)  
unexpected:

1) there are three number columns, Funds In, Funds Out, and Balance. The  
Balance column contains the balance in the expense account at the moment  
of that transaction. This number isn't that closely connected to the  
report, since there are other transactions in that expense account. (As it  
happens, all the transactions I'm looking at go to the same expense  
account, but what if they didn't?)

2) The total of the Funds In column doesn't sum the numbers in that  
column. (It should be something like $1850 and it's off by about $80: the  
amount it's off by isn't any of the transaction amounts.)

3) The total of the Funds Out column doesn't sum the numbers in that  
column. It's quite severely different (should be the same, right, but it's  
actually about $125, and in this case it matches the amount of several of  
the transactions).

If I do the same from the expense account, I get the same result.

There was a thread recently (May 7) about printing a report from a search  
on the Memo field, and Derek wrote that the report to use (once the search  
is made) is the Account Register report. I don't seem to have one of those  
as an option: I have the Account Report and the Account Transaction Report  
(which shows no transactions at all), and I have the Transaction Report,  
which shows all transactions, not just the search results.


(I'm using GC 2.2.9 on Mac OS X, the dmg package, downloaded about 3 weeks  
ago, About says: "This copy was built from r17949M on 2009-09-08.")