Income/expenses over time report

[Matt Kowske]

Looks like the budget report is what I'm looking for, thanks!

I wonder if, in the spirit of UNIX -- do one thing and do it well -- the
direction of GnuCash is to fully utilize a SQL database backend and let
the majority of the reporting be done by an external application. I
wouldn't mind if it was easy to access once set up.

On 12/18/2014 05:56 PM, Wm wrote:
> Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:06:55 <gCd9t0JP41kUFweB at tarrcity.demon.co.uk>  Wm
> <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk>
>
> [ff to self]
>
>> Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:23:34 <5492E366.2040102 at cmail.nu>  Matt Kowske
>> <jmk at cmail.nu>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have been using GnuCash for business purposes for a few weeks now and
>>> like it so much I want to transition from using KmyMoney to GnuCash for
>>> my personal finances. One thing I might miss is the reporting
>>> functionality... is it possible to get a report like the below
>>> (income/expenses over time by month) in GnuCash or would it require the
>>> use of the SQL backend in combo with office data/excel?
>
> btw this is a classic pivot table application see Pierre DUVALLET
> postings late Nov / early Dec.  It will give you a feel for doing
> things the SQL way.  I'd suggest sqlite unless you're already running
> mysql or postgres dbs for something else.
>
>>> In case the attachment does not go through, it is a table with the
>>> column headers as the months of the year and the rows as individual
>>> expense categories, e.g.
>>
>> Budget Report will do it.  You don't need a meaningful budget and you
>> can do a lot more with the periods than monthly.
>
> P.S. dunno why but you're asking questions I seem interested in
> answering, I'll get over it soon :)
>