How do I create a calendar year expense report?

[David T.]

That will definitely work. Do be sure to change the dates to cover the correct time period (Edit->Report Options, General tab).

Another way to achieve this is to generate a Transaction Report (which by default displays no information), and adjust the report options to cover the dates and accounts you wish to report on. This is useful if you have a subset of accounts you want to report on.

If you are only interested in a single account, you can open that account register, change the account view filter to the previous calendar year (View->Filter by, date range for the last year) and open an account report (Report->Account Report). I consider this last one to be least useful, since the Filter by date options are limited to selecting specific dates, whereas the other approaches allow you to specify named date ranges (e.g., "This Year”, “Previous year”, etc.)

David

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 4:29 AM, Katie Eldridge <eldridgetideswell-katie at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> hi Mike,
> I'm quite new to Gnucash, so you might get a better answer later, but I think that the 'cash flow' report is not the one you want for this:  try Reports->Income & Expense->Profit & Loss.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Katie
> 
> On 25/01/16 01:44, Michael Wagner wrote:
>> I tracked all of my personal income/expenses this year in gnucash, with the goal of being able to answer questions like, "How much did I spend on gas this year?"
>> 
>> I am trying to figure out how to create a report of all of my income for the year. I assume that this is a simple task that a lot of people want to do, but  I can't figure out how to do it.
>> 
>> I tried generating a, "Income &  Expense" Cash Flow report, with dates 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015, but many of the numbers are wrong. For example, the Cash Flow report days that I spent $3.64 on Auto:Gas, but the account (correctly) says I spent $3638.40.
>> 
>> How do I generate a report of all my expenses for a calendar year in gnucash?
>> 
>> Don't accountants generally want to do this? Am I thinking of question in the wrong way?
>> 
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
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