Report Question

[David T.]

Mike,

I think the question is more about the report and how it aggregates information, rather than how the accounts are structured (although, of course that too can affect things). As Christopher Lam replied to the original poster’s posting of this on Saturday, the likely answer is to change the settings on the report to increase the number of bars in the report, or to do as Maf suggests, and reduce the accounts selected for the report.

Joe, did you try what Christopher suggested on Saturday, when you posted this originally? If not, why did you post the question again?

David

> On Oct 2, 2017, at 6:01 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com> wrote:
> 
> On 10/2/2017 4:42 AM, Joseph Hesse wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am using the latest version 2.6.17 of gnucash.  I just ran the report "Expense Over Time = Expense Barchart" with the maximum number of vertical bars selected. The report lists all my expense items including one called "Other". Since the amount of "Other" is high, I would like to get a breakdown of the expense items included under "Other".
>> 
>> Is there a way to do this?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Joe Hesse 
> 
> Yes of course there is, you set up your CoA for as many categories of expenses as you like.
> 
> Step back a moment and think about this problem. Suppose you had NO sub accounts under "expense" (all lumped together). You would then have this problem with ALL of your expenses. So you decided to have some number of sub accounts that let you characterize (group) like expenses and then a bucket "other" for those you choose not to categorize/group because totally unrelated and/or unimportant.
> 
> At some later time, you realize that a number of transactions in this "other" account ARE related* and so you want them grouped also. Then DO THAT. Create a new expense sub account for those and move them there << The technically correct procedure would be to create a "correcting transaction" to do that but you will perhaps choose to edit the existing transactions >>
> 
> When you create your books, you will be very unlikely to know all of the accounts you will eventually need or want.
> 
> Michael D Novack
> 
> * Or maybe just one, but clearly so important/significant to your finances that you want it clearly listed instead of buried in a miscellaneous category.
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