Which report am I looking for?

[Aaron Laws]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Tracy <tracy at arisiasoft.com> wrote:

> I've poked a bit at the reports menu, but I can't find one that really
> does what I'm looking for - either that, or I can't figure which one to
> customize (and what customization would be needed) to produce the
> information I am looking for...
>
> What I am trying to do is to produce a report against a single expense
> account, subtotaled by "Description" and broken down by month over the
> selected period.
>
> For example, let's say we are looking at Expense.Dining, for transactions
> over the last year. I would like to have a monthly breakdown on each
> Description entry (for example, a total for each month for all the
> transactions with Description "McDonalds", "Burger King", etc... Something
> like:
>
> January:
>
>     McDonalds      $274.52
>
>     Burger King     $192.33
>
>     <etc>
>
> February:
>
>     McDonalds    $192.17
>
>     Burger King   $62.81
>
>     <etc>
>
> March:
>
>
> And so on....
>
> So which of the reports should I look at, and what suggestions can you
> offer for customizing it to produce a report of this nature?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>


The Expense bar chart can give a visual presentation of these data, and I
think it can show a table at the bottom of the graph with the data in print.