Account Report on search results

[Mohamad Al-Saqer]

I can confirm all your points 1, 2 and 3;

However for the Balance column, you can configure the report not to
show it anyways since it is most of the time irrelevant to what you
want to show in the report.

Further, which can be added as point 4 in your email;

4- Search results do not return transaction were the description of
the split transaction matches the search criteria. Only transactions
that main description matches the criteria are returned. I am the
treasurer for a non-profit organization and trying to find my way
through gnucash so I can migrate from quicken 2009. We receive
automatic transfers where the bank statement only shows the sum of all
transfers occurring in one day. I split the transactions to show who
paid what fraction of the whole amount. I put the name of the payee
for each split in its own description line. When I run a search for a
certain contributor, these transactions won't show up.

5- You can not choose the date limits on the account report on the
search results. This means that you must add manually the amount for a
certain financial period.

I am too using 2.2.9.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Anthony Dardis <adardis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.")
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