Income and Expense Report

[David T.]

You mean like this? 

I threw this together from an existing budget that I had created (which included the accounts and time frame I wanted), and then set up the Budget Report to show the included subset of accounts and only the Actual amounts in each account. With the Budget created, it only took a couple of minutes.

Take a look at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash#A_single_report_that_shows_summary_amounts_for_multiple_months_for_multiple_accounts

David 


--- On Tue, 10/5/10, Oda Stout <stouto at bellsouth.net> wrote:

From: Oda Stout <stouto at bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Income and Expense Report
To: stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com
Cc: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 11:22 AM



  

    
    
  Thank you.  I was sorry  that your answer to my
      question was NO.  An example of the Actual Income and
    Expense Report that I was referring to is attached.  I was able to
    generate this report easily with my old Parsons MoneyCounts Software
    without using any editors.  Unfortunately, my MoneyCounts software
    will not work with Windows 7.   Parsons MoneyCounts software is a
    great program, and GnuCash is the closest software that I can find
    that is similar to it.   Please consider including the attached
    report in future versions of GnuCash.

    Thanks again.

    Oda

    

    On 10/5/2010 10:57 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
     

       

        I don't use a budget, but I would like to be able to view all of
        my actual income and expenses for each month for the entire
        year, starting with January.  Is there a way to do this? 
        Thanks. 

        

        Oda 

      
      

      Depends on what you mean. 

      

      Are you asking: 

      

      a) Can I produce an "Income Statement*" report for any month I
      wish? (and so for each month) 

         The answer to that is yes. You simply set the start and stop
      date for each report via report options. You would run this report
      each month. 

      

      b) Is GnuCash going to take all of these reports and edit the
      output into some single very wide report for me? 

         The answer to that is no. You can of course export the monthly
      reports and then use whatever editor you like to arrange the
      reports into a single report. For example, for one of the
      non-profits whose books are kept on GnuCash our "finished product"
      report consists of two consecutive annual reports of this type
      (plus the corresponding balance sheet reports for end of each
      year. When I asked the accountant whether he wanted me to write a
      custom report within GnuCash to do this combining (I used to
      design financial software for a living) he said "don't be silly --
      I'll use my favorite editor for that". 

      

         The point here is there are an awful lot of possibilities how
      people might want or need their "finished product" reports
      composed and formatted. No point to have  a full featured editor
      created to be used for JUST for GnuCash reports when there are
      already so many editors out there. 

      

      Michael 

      

      * That's the name GnuCash uses for the "Profit and Loss" report
      aka "Revenue Statement" aka ............  (the report that shows
      all income and all expenses for some time period. 

      

    
  



      
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