Expense Piechart report gives misleading results

[David Carlson]

I have filed *Bug 777105*
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777105> to bugzilla

David C

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Ed Reeder <ereeder at mailup.net> wrote:

> I've done some limited tests and it appears that setting the "Show
> Accounts until level" to 6, at least for my chart of accounts" provides
> complete expense totals.  Now if you had more than 6 levels of accounts
> I'd guess that your totals would be missing those expenses at levels
> greater than 6.
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017, at 05:05 AM, David T. 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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