GnuCash Forum

[Derek Atkins]

On Sat, September 15, 2012 9:51 pm, posword wrote:
>
> Derek Atkins-3 wrote
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, September 15, 2012 3:39 am, posword wrote:
>>> I've completed a financial year and closed the books. Now my tax agent
>>> wants
>>> me to extract transactions for a specific period. I can see no way to
>>> do
>>> this.
>>
>> Do they only want specific transactions?  Or some more broader subset?
>>
>> You could run a transaction report, then choose the accounts and time
>> frame that they are asking for using the report options.   Have you
>> tried
>> that?
>>
>
> I just tried that, Derek. I need all the accounts for a period from 1st
> Feb.
> to 30 June. While I could use the report options dialog for the
> Transaction
> Reports, it keeps giving me the message, "No transactions were found that
> match the time interval and account selection specified in the Options
> panel." Which is nonsense, of course, since I can display individual
> accounts on the screen and see the transactions.
>
> I'm inclined to think that closing the book from the Tools menu has
> somehow
> stopped me from getting a Transactions Report. It doesn't make sense but
> there it is.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter

No, that doesn't make sense.  All that tool does is add zeroizing
transactions to each Income and Expense account.  Most likely you don't
have the proper accounts selected.

>From the report options, on the Accounts page, try clicking on "Select
All" and then immediately "Select Children".

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-derek

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