Customer Summary Report, expenses treated as income

[David Etlinger]

Hi,

Gnucash 2.4.13 on Mac 10.8.3. When running customer summary report, 
expenses appear to have the wrong sign, increasing rather than 
decreasing profit. For example I'll get entries like this:

Customer    Profit    Markup    Sales    Expense
Mr. Money    $40.00    125%    $32.00    -$8.00

When it seems clear profit should be $24 = $32-$8. Actually I have a 
hunch... when I have an expense for a client, I'm not usually creating a 
bill and charging it back to that client. I expense it directly to 
"reimbursable expenses" and then invoice the customer, allocating income 
for that line to the same "reimbursable expenses" account. This is 
pretty standard accounting as I understand it. Is my hunch correct; does 
this report only work right if expenses are entered as bills charged 
back to the customer? I really don't want to have to create a bill for 
every little expense... can anyone shed some insight? Thanks for any help!