Year end category reporting

[David Carlson]

On 2/2/2013 5:41 AM, Scumbuster wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried it and no.
>
> All I get there is a listing of all the accounts I selected and then a
> 'money comes from" and a "money goes to" listing which doesn't show me much.
>
> I am trying to get a printout of the various accounts I need to see, like
> "automotive repairs"  and "medical".....along with the amount of money spent
> in 2012 for each one....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+scumbuster=comcast.net at gnucash.org
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+scumbuster=comcast.net at gnucash.org] On Behalf
> Of Dave Sergeant
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:34 AM
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Year end category reporting
>
> Does Reports/Income&Expense/CashFlow do what you want? If you click on the
> Options button at that page you can specify the date range or set it to your
> accounting period. You can specify the accounting period from the
> edit/preferences/accounting period.
>
> New user here as well..
>
> Dave
>
> On 27 Jan 2013 at 10:15, Scumbuster wrote:
>
>> Anyhoo, I am trying to figure out the best way to generate and print a 
>> report that will list the sum totals of all "accounts" (which would 
>> have been categories in quicken) so I can see where the money went.
>>
>> I use this report for taxes -- ie medical, auto costs, etc.
>>
>> I have figured out how to do a report of the accounts but it is for 
>> the entire timespan of all my records which I had imported.
>>
>> How can I specify a date-range in these reports?
>>
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
>
I am puzzled by your answer.  It sounds like you opened the report that
Dave suggested but then you did not scroll down past the heading to the
body of the report.  Are you entering expenditures to those expense
accounts from a bank account or credit card account?  If so, that report
should show the totals to each expense account for whatever period you
select.  When you use the default settings the comes from section will
show income accounts and the goes to section will show expense accounts
for your accounting period.  The default accounting period is this
year.  You would need to change the period to start of previous year and
end of previous year to see the data you want.

David C
Please tell us more about what you did and what the result was.
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