Spendings of this year - without closing a booking year

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Gast1234 wrote:

>Dear readers,
>
>is it possible to see the spendings of this year in the overview of all
>accounts?
>
>I couldn't accomplish that, thus I closed for every year the booking.
>
>Thank you!
>
>  
>
If we can overcome the language barrier we can probably help you.

"Spendings" --- do you mean by that your "expenses" for the year? Or do 
you mean the total of money leaving your cash account? Not the same 
thing, since money can go out of your account for things other than 
expenses (purchase of a fixed asset, purchase of a non money investment 
asset, loaned out, etc.)

IF as I suspect you meant "expenses" (things that were posted by 
transactions to accounts of type "expenses" this is easy. You want the 
"Income Statement" report. That's what old accounting books will call 
"Profit and Loss Report". It can show all the income and expense account 
balances (and the net difference) for any time interval you specify. 
Make sure of that last part since what you expect to be included in the 
report depends on the date range.

Michael D Novack

PS: In the old days, pen and ink on paper, this "report" was created in 
the process of  "closing the books". Instead of closing each income and 
expense account directly to equity first closed to another temporary 
account of type equity called "profit and loss" and the amount need to 
close this account to main equity would be the net profit or loss for 
the accounting period. But gnucash can just generate the report without 
an actual closing of the books.