Account Report on search results

Anthony Dardis adardis at gmail.com
Thu May 27 10:09:22 EDT 2010


So far there is one confirmation of points (1)-(3). Is this a problem for  
the Account Register report? Should I report a bug?



On Mon, 24 May 2010 10:41:29 -0400, Andrew Sackville-West  
<andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:

> 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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