account change during a period?

[Derek Atkins]

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

> On 26 February 2012 12:09, Zeev Pekar <z.pekar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, how do I  determine how has changed the amount of an account from
>> date A to date B?
>
> If you look at the account at date A it will show the balance at that
> time.  Then look at date B and get the new balance.  The difference
> between these is what you are looking for.  Perhaps I misunderstand
> the question.

It also depends on what kind of account.  If it's an Income or Expense
account then you can use the Income Statement (aka Profit & Loss) Report
and it will tell you the difference from the beginning to end of the
period.

If, however, you want an Asset account, there isn't a good way to do it
automatically.  You could just take the balances and the start and end
and subtract manually, or you could try to open the register for the
account, View -> Filter By -> Date to set the date purely for the
period, and then run Reports -> Account Report which should give you a
total of debits and credits during the period.

> Colin

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-derek

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