How to get summary journal entries

[Wm]

On 28/02/2018 23:24, Stefan Riha wrote:

> I'm a beginner and I'd like to examine how sales and expenses change assets
> and liabilities (a.k.a ."summary journal entry", see e.g. Accounting
> workbook for dummies by J. Tracey, link to google books below).

cash sale or sale on account ?

expense on account or cash purchase ?

> I found that the cash flow report almost gets me there, but not quite. If I
> choose the income accounts I'm interested in, it lists the affected assets,
> but it doesn't show how much each income account is contributing
> individually (if I understand correctly, the sum of selected income
> accounts should then equal the difference between "Money In" and "Money
> Out".)

Not really.

> Is there a way to get summary journals in gnucash?

Probably, but no one really does that these days.

> If not, would it be easy to implement this in the existing cash flow
> reports?

I wouldn't bother.

> Thanks for your help!

I sometimes disagree with AdrienM but he has actually given you a superb 
response.  Read it.

The main problem is, I think, that you are trying to translate manual 
bookkeeping into computerised accounting and not understanding that if 
they translated directly one or the other would be redundant :)

In computerised double entry computing you just make sure the 
transaction is balanced, it is best if you get it right first time but 
you can always fix it later.

*then* you report income and expenditure, your balance sheet and 
whatever else may be required by management.

-- 
Wm