Transaction Report - Subtotaling on Description? (Based on Previous Threads)

[aegross]

This post is more-or-less for the elders of the forum....those who have a lot
of experience with GC and double-entry accounting....

Was reporting on charitable giving for the current year, using the
Transaction Report.  Tried to determine how to subtotal on Description;
couldn't determine how and scanned through past threads and found these:

http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Basic-reporting-Subtotal-by-Description-field-td1421478.html

http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/report-of-charitable-contributions-td4461126.html#a4461254

http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Which-report-am-I-looking-for-td4688925.html#a4689235


If I understand the primary points of these threads, it isn't possible to
subtotal on Description (without changing the code) and if one really wanted
to subtotal on description, they really should not have setup their account
like Expense:Charity but rather Expense:Charity:CharityName1,
Expense:Charity:CharityName2, etc. 

The previous authors and myself maybe have thinking too much as to how a
Quicken-type program uses reports and not properly how to think this through
with proper double-entry accounting.   Before reading these threads, it
wouldn't have occurred to me to have Expense sub-accounts dedicated to a
particular entity, esp if I may use an entity once or twice but never again.

It's not that there is a problem with the Transaction Report or even that it
"needs work" but rather, my understanding of double-entry accounting was
insufficient.  Correct?

Regards,
Andrew Gross 



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