Report for shared expenses

[Ruud Bijnen]

Hi Carsten,

Thank you for your quick reply. This is what I was looking for, (now I
feel stupid that I didn't find this report option myself).
In order to get a summary of every month I guess I'll have to setup a
different report for each one, right?

Is it just me or is the 'Account Display Depth' option not really
doing much? I would suspect that setting this to level 2, the 'a)
money into this account comes from following accounts' would only
display something like:
Assets.[Me]
Assets.[Girlfriend]
Assets.[Shared]
Unbalanced
instead all sub-accounts (e.g. Assets.[Me].cash, Assets.[Me].bank) are shown.

Also, is it normal to take quite some time to generate the report? (It
takes 20~30 seconds on my Intel i7-2630, Win7x64) I think my
girlfriend should try this on her quite slow (VIA Nano) netbook LOL.

Thanks again,
Ruud Bijnen

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> have you tried running the cashflow report with an account selection only on
> the Expenses->[Shared] account?
>
> That should give you two lists
> a) money into this account comes from following accounts
> b) money out of this account goes to following accounts
>
> a) should include a line with the info that you want
> And if you then do "Select Children" it might give you even more details ...
>
> Regs,
> Carsten
>
>
> On 09/23/2012 09:56 AM, Ruud Bijnen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using GnuCash for our personal accounting some time now for
>> and it gives us some insights into our income and expenses.
>> I would like to take the reporting to the next level tough, and I'm
>> pretty sure that this is all possible with GnuCash, but I'm not sure
>> if this is achievable with the build-in reporting tools, or if I
>> should write my own.
>>
>> Right now me and my girlfriend both pay for shared stuff (groceries,
>> utilities bill, etc) from our personal accounts. Although a shared
>> banking account would probably be the best solution, I would like to
>> know who spent how much on what of the shared expenses accounts.
>> Ideally the report would show per period (monthly, or adjustable like
>> the build-in reports) the amounts each of us has contributed to the
>> shared expenses.
>>
>> Is this possible with the build-in reports, and if so, how can I set this
>> up?
>>
>> Here is a simplified represetitation of the accounts tree:
>>
>> Assets
>>          [Me]
>>                  ...
>>          [Girlfriend]
>>                  ...
>>          [Shared]
>>                  Cash
>> Income
>>          [Me]
>>                  Freelancing
>>                  ...
>>          [Girlfriend]
>>                  Work
>>                  ...
>> Expenses
>>          [Me]
>>                  ...
>>          [Girlfriend]
>>                  ...
>>          [Shared]
>>                  ...
>>                  lots of topic accounts
>>                          with multiple levels of sub-accounts
>>                  ...
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ruud Bijnen
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