Report Generation Question

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Matthew,

I didn't see a reply to your question so far, so here's my stab at it.

The report as you ask *exactly* doesn't exist in GnuCash as far as I know. There is no 
transaction report that will show a starting balance at the beginning of the report. This looks 
like a useful improvement to me. Can you create an enhancement request in our Bugzilla for 
this ? (More info on Bugzilla: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla)

Another report that will get you close is GnuCash' own version of the "Register report". You can 
get this by opening an account register and then select "Reports"->"Account Report". It still 
won't show a starting balance though. To only report on a limited set of transactions you can 
apply a filter or search on your account register and then call "Account Report" on the filtered 
register/search result register.

Other than that what you could do is generate the report in GnuCash and then copy the 
generated report into LibreOffice Calc/Microsoft Excel and do some post processing.

Geert

On Wednesday 13 November 2013 16:29:05 Matthew Lybanon wrote:
> I would like to produce a report from GnuCash that shows transactions
> from one account in the following format:
> 
> ----------
> Title
> 
> From <date 1> to <date 2>
> 
> Starting balance:     $—
> 
> transaction 1
> transaction 2
>      …
> 
> Ending balance:     $—
> ----------
> 
> The treasurer (a former accountant) in a club I belong to generates
> reports like this (using different software), and calls each a
> "register report."
> 
> I can't figure out how to do this using GnuCash's built-in reports,
> and I'm probably not competent to design a custom report.  I can get
> almost what I want from a General Ledger report or a Transaction
> Report that shows a running balance.  The biggest problem is showing
> the starting balance.  If any of the built-in reports can show that,
> I would appreciate some details.
> 
> I could probably accomplish what I want by entering dummy transactions
> of $0.00 at the beginning and end of the reporting period (even that
> wouldn't give me starting and ending balances on lines separate from
> the list of transactions), but I would like to find out a cleaner
> way.
> 
> I'm new to the list, and I realize this question may already have been
> answered.  I would appreciate any help.
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