Cash Flow Report

[David Britton]

Booking rebates (credits) into the same account as expenses (debits) is
called "offsetting" and is frowned upon in accounting circles.  Much better
to set up a subaccount for rebates at the same level as a subaccount for
expenses (and next door in the account tree) using the concept of "contra"
account;  the subtotal of the two will be the net amount you want, yet the
integrity will be preserved while no slurring together of your financial
information occurs.  It's the same concept as that normally employed for
Accounts Receivable that typically has as its contra an account called
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+bbaruu=gmail.com at gnucash.org] On Behalf Of
Carsten Rinke
Sent: Fri, 03 Oct, 2014 7:23 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Cash Flow Report

Hi Charles,

to me it is not clear what you mean by

Currently if I have an expense category/account that has either rebates or
reimbursements the rebates/reimbursements display as an income category as
the same name as the expense category, and then the expenses show under
expenses.


I wonder how your account tree looks like.
I also wonder if you follow up the concept of double entry booking as
described in chapter 2 of the Tutorial and Concepts Guide.

Carsten


On 01.10.2014 15:14, Charles Brescia wrote:
> Hello:
>      I am currently running GnuCash 2.4.15 in Linux Ubuntu 14.04.  I 
> use cash flow reports extensively and would like to see them display a 
> little differently.  Currently if I have an expense category/account 
> that has either rebates or reimbursements the rebates/reimbursements 
> display as an income category as the same name as the expense 
> category, and then the expenses show under expenses.
>      What I would prefer is that the rebates/reimbursements to an 
> expense category show as a negative expense or in other words to 
> reduce the total amount of the expense.  The same would hold true for 
> negative incomes as well, as they are currently showing up under 
> expenses rather than adjusting the main income category.
>      Also when you initially run a report (any report) the progress 
> bar in the lower right hand corner works.  But if you select options 
> make changes and rerun the report the progress bar no longer shows the 
> progress.  Not a big deal but it would be nice particularly for a 
> large report that may take a while to load.
>      Thank you for your time.
>
> Charles
>
>
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