Account Report on search results

Andrew Sackville-West andrew at swclan.homelinux.org
Mon May 24 10:41:29 EDT 2010


On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:46:54AM -0500, Mohamad Al-Saqer wrote:
[...]
> 
> 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.

In the search results register do:

View -> Filter-By -> Date Tab -> Select Range -> set dates you like

then run the Account report. It's not exactly intuitive, but it works.

A

> 
> 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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