multicolumn report

[Stephen (Shih-Hsiung) Ni]

Thank you, David, for your help.  Your info really helps

-Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: David T. [mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 12:32 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Stephen (Shih-Hsiung) Ni
Subject: Re: multicolumn report

Take a look at:

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Using_GnuCash#A_single_report_that_shows_summary_amounts_for_multiple_months_for_multiple_accounts

See whether that approach begins to meet your needs.

David

--- On Thu, 9/2/10, Stephen (Shih-Hsiung) Ni <sni at broadcom.com> wrote:

> From: Stephen (Shih-Hsiung) Ni <sni at broadcom.com>
> Subject: multicolumn report
> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 8:47 AM
> Hi All:
>    I used to be a Microsoft Money user, and
> just recently I started using gnucash.  When I was
> using Ms Money, I used to generate a report that shows
> monthly income and expense over time, say over past 6 months
> period starting from current month.  This report will
> have all the income and expense categories in the first
> column, and then monthly income and expense in the following
> columns, one month per column. Currently, if I want to
> generate the same report in gnucash, I need to use income
> statement in custom multicolumn report format, then manually
> enter the date range for each month. Even then the report
> looks ugly since the same income and expense category names
> will be repeated between each month column, making it hard
> to read. 
>    Does anyone have an already created
> custom report template that I can borrow to do the above
> task so I don't have to manually create such multicolumn
> report each month?  I am not familiar with Scheme
> language, so I am hesitant in creating my own report
> template
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Stephen
> 
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