Adding quantity to expenses

[prl]

That's what I do for our car fuel purchases, with a note like:

436.9km at 38.43l 8.80l/100km

(27/30 mpg (US/Imp), for those who still measure things that way ;) )

Manually calculated, but in a standard format, so that if I wanted to 
extract data to look at things like like averages or trends, or convert 
to kg CO2 emissions, I could.

Peter

On 2/08/2017 20:14, Maf. King wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:47:02 BST edamiani wrote:
>> Hi, I started using GnuCash with the goal of tracking my expenses and
>> generating reports, but one important thing for me would be storing the
>> quantity of an expense and automatically generating the resulting expense
>> from that. For instance: if I buy 0.8 kg of cheese for $10 the kilogram, I
>> would like to write down the quantity that I've bought (0.8 kg), the unity
>> (or kilogram) price ($10) and extract the resulting expense from it ($8). Is
>> it possible to achieve this kind of thing with GnuCash?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Edgard
> Hi Edgard,
>
> you can store that sort of info in the notes/memo fields of a transaction- but
> that may not be what you are looking for, as you will still have to do a
> manual calculation.
>
> The other coice that you might be able to make work for you is to use the
> business features - a bill has quantity & unit cost columns.  But it might
> make things overly complicated.
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
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