Report for shared expenses

[Carsten Rinke]

Hi Ruud,
see included below.
Regs,
Carsten


On 09/23/2012 11:16 AM, Ruud Bijnen wrote:
> 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).
no worries, those who never stepped into this situation to be the first 
to throw the stone :-)
> In order to get a summary of every month I guess I'll have to setup a
> different report for each one, right?
yes, at least I haven't found another way yet
Be aware: You can encapsulate many reports into one by utilizing
Reports->Sample&Custom->Custom Multicolumn Reports
and then store the result with
File->Add Report
after which you will find it under
Reports->Custom Reports

By this it should be possible to have multiple cashflow reports in one 
view, each with specific options (here: time selection), and re-run them 
whenever needed without need to setup the time definitions again.
>
> 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.
Your suspicion is correct, but make sure to "Select Children" in the 
account selection.
>
> 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.
That sould only depend on the amount of date you have collected. I have 
one file that covers data from the past ten years and I am really 
careful to check which and how many accounts I have selected before I 
press the OK button ;-)
>
> 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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