Expense Piechart report gives misleading results

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 9 08:05:02 EST 2017


Create a Transaction Report with the accounts of interest, set to include transactions from last year.

> On Jan 8, 2017, at 9:41 PM, Ed Reeder <ereeder at mailup.net> wrote:
> 
> David,
> Thanks for the confirmation!
> 
> Since I'm in the process of budgeting for next year any suggestions on
> how to fairly easily get accurate expense numbers for this past year?
> 
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017, at 12:11 AM, David T. wrote:
>> I see similar bumps. 
>> 
>> Adjusting the depth of the piechart causes the Expenses total to change,
>> in my test case by what I suspect is a single reverse transaction. 
>> 
>> Moreover, running a general transaction report for all expenses for the
>> same time period yields an entirely different total, by a more
>> substantial amount. Clearly, the totalling function in the scheme needs
>> some love. Unfortunately, I don’t do Scheme.
>> 
>> David
>> 
>>> On Jan 8, 2017, at 5:57 AM, gbguy <ereeder at mailup.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Bump
>>> 
>>> 
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