Income statement for specific accounts

[Steve Hill]

My partner and I largely keep our finances separate, but we have a joint 
bank account, out of which we pay our joint expenses (e.g. groceries, 
bills, etc.).  I keep records of both my personal accounts and our joint 
account in a single GNUcash file.

I would like to generate income/expense statements to better understand 
my expenses.  However, herein lies a problem - clearly the expenses in the 
joint account need to be divided by 2 since the joint account is shared 
between us (and we pay into it in equal proportions).  So I would like to 
generate two separate statements - one for incomes/expenses flowing 
to/from my personal accounts and the other for incomes/expenses flowing 
to/from the joint account.  Unfortunately, the income statement provided 
by gnucash considers all income and expense transactions, no matter which 
accounts they are transferred to.

I can largely do what I want using a cash flow report rather than the 
income statement - this will let me specify the bank accounts to consider 
and it will tell me which expense/income accounts the money has been 
transferred to/from.

However, using a cash flow report in this way is problematic in cases 
where a refund has been obtained.  i.e. where I have bought something 
(money transferred from bank account to expense account) and later 
received a refund (money transferred from expense account back to bank 
account) the expense account shows up twice, once on the income side and 
once on the expenses side.

So it there any way to generate the report I require?  Essentially I need 
a cash flow report, but with each account appearing only once, even if 
money has flowed in both directions.

Thanks.

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