Transaction Details Report

[John Morris]

Hi All,
  I just moved to GnuCash last summer, so I have not been through a whole year with it yet. Right now, I'm struggling with how to get a simple transaction report. I use this report in a spreadsheet to calculate our annual taxes. For this report, I just need every single transaction from the year, each on a single line. I imagine that there is an easier way to calculate my taxes in GnuCash, but I won't have time to use that method this year. Hopefully, I will be able to learn more about GnuCash's reporting features in the future.

  So, I found the "Transaction Report" in the Report menu and it seems to do exactly what I want with one problem. Split transactions are reported on a single line with no indication of the other account: The words "split transaction" take the place of the other account name. My immediate problem is that we have a number of transactions in one account where we track payments we received from clients through PayPal. Each transaction has the amount of the payment applied to our Editing account and the amount of PayPal's fee applied to the Service Charge account.

  When I pull the Transaction Report, I invariably get just one of those splits from each transaction in our PayPal account, either the Editing line or the Service Charge line or the net amount applied to the PayPal account. Of course, I could export a couple of reports and then massage the data after the fact some and come out with what I'm seeking, but it would be nice if I could just pull one report to get what I need. It seems to me that this is a simple enough report that it should come as default. Does it?

Thanks,
John