How to get yearly account totals?

[David T.]

--- On Thu, 3/10/11, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
> Subject: Re: How to get yearly account totals?
> To: "Steve Juniper" <stvjpr at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 11:53 AM
> Hi,
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> On Thu, March 10, 2011 2:51 pm, Steve Juniper wrote:
> > I've got the income info - what I need are the
> expenses for tax reporting
> > purposes. There must be an easy way to get totals for
> particular accounts
> > for given periods. I seem to recall doing it that it
> was not at all
> > intuitive.
> 

If you are in the US, I would point out that if you set the Tax Options for your various accounts (assigning each account to a tax code line), you can easily get tax reporting info that can be exported as a TXF file for use with Turbotax. Look under Edit->Tax Options

David

> I repeat my last question:  Are you sure you don't
> want an Income
> Statement Report?  This report used to be called
> "Profit & Loss" back in
> 1.8 days and was renamed.  Try it; I think it's really
> the report you
> want.
> 
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Steve
> 
> -derek
> 
> >      "People in a number of Arab
> countries want to create new
> > constitutions
> > for themselves. They should just take ours - we're not
> using it."
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Are you sure you don't want an Income Statement
> report?
> >>
> >> -derek
> >>
> >> On Thu, March 10, 2011 8:30 am, Steve Juniper
> wrote:
> >> > I need certain expense account totals for
> 2010. I go to Reports >
> >> Income
> >> &
> >> > Expense > Cash Flow and change the dates
> to last year. The totals this
> >> > gives
> >> > me are not accurate. For example,
> Expenses:Rental gives me
> >> > Expenses:Rental:taxes but for some reason
> not
> >> Expenses:Rental:Utilities.
> >> > There are other omissions scattered about as
> well.
> >> >
> >> > If I select only Expenses:Rental including
> only the sub-categories it
> >> get
> >> > no
> >> > totals at all - only to me arcane
> book-keeping words.
> >> >
> >> > There must be some simple way to meet this
> common need. Thank you!
> >> >
> >> > Steve
> >> >
> >> >      "People in a number of
> Arab countries want to create new
> >> > constitutions
> >> > for themselves. They should just take ours -
> we're not using it."
> >> >
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