Spendings of this year - without closing a booking year

Keith Bellairs keith at bellairs.org
Fri Feb 28 16:21:22 EST 2014


Click on the Accounts tab. Click the down arrow at the top right of the bar
with names of the selected columns. Select Balance(Period). got to Edit ->
Preferences Then choose an Accounting Period. (previous year, this year,
date range, etc.) The Balance Period column on the Accounts page will then
show the balance of your accounts for the period selected.




On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:15 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Micahel,
>
> I think Gast1234 wishes to see the YTD expenses on the main Chart of
> Accounts window, rather than in a report.
>
> Of course you are right that the report will work for him, but it's also
> helpful to know that you can view an account's net for the current period
> in the Chart of Accounts.
>
> The chart of accounts window has a large number of columns that users can
> select for display. To see the many options (one of which is "Total
> (Period)"), scroll all the way to the right of the Chart of Accounts
> window, and click the down arrow. This will bring up a long list of columns
> you can choose to display in the Chart of Accounts.
>
> HTH,
> David
>
> On Feb 28, 2014, at 5:58 AM, Mike or Penny Novack <
> stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
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