Expense Piechart report gives misleading results

[David Carlson]

David T,

For some strange reason your first response is missing from the thread on
my maillist, so I do not know what you said there.  However, If I
understood gbguy's original post, he was stating that the Expense Piechart
report did not 'roll up" deep level sub-account expenses into the top level
total.

I seem to recall that budgets also work that way, i.e. low level
sub-accounts do not get 'rolled up' into the top level expense when there
are not explicitly separated out.

Yet, I think that in the CoA page and in other places they do, in fact get
'rolled up' into the total expenses.

My question is that since the piechart and budget reports (among others)
seem to be capable of automatically hiding lower level sub-accounts,
shouldn't they consistently 'roll up' lower level sub-account amounts into
the first level that is explicitly displayed?  I have not tested my data to
see how GnuCash works, so perhaps it is consistent to some rule that I am
overlooking.

David C





On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 7:05 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> 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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