Income and Expense Reports

[David Carlson]

On 5/1/2012 7:30 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> Shokster wrote:
>
>> You seem to be doing it right then. I can't imagine what else could
>> be going
>> wrong.
>> The only thing I can suggest is to check any one account (eg.
>> Expense:Groceries) and see if there are entries there from all three
>> forms
>> of spending (cash, credit card and debit card accounts).
>> If there are indeed entries from all three forms of spending, then
>> I'm at a
>> loss as to why it's not working right in reports.
>>  
>>
> Maybe we need to find out WHAT reports?
>
> Instead of the pie chart version, try running an ordinary "Income
> Statement" (in spite of the name that's both income and expense). Tell
> us what happens when you do that. I don't have a chart of accounts
> where there are so few expense accounts in the chart and so little
> nesting that I could test the "pie chart" version in a meaningful way.
>
> IF you see the same sort of "lumping" with the ordinary report, check
> out the nesting level of your expense accounts with the nesting level
> you are specifying for the report (report options) because if the
> nesting level of the report is less than the nesting level of your
> accounts gnucash WILL lump together (has no choice). The default value
> for nesting level of the reports isn't enough for a chart of accounts
> with much nesting of accounts.
>
>
> Michael
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The report has a maximum number of slices which defaults to seven and
show accounts until level which defaults to two.  You might try
increasing the level to three or four and the number of slices to, say,
12. 

Definitely compare your results to what you get when you follow
Michael's suggestion.

David C
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