Account Report/Register Report

[David Carlson]

When I suggested that perhaps the report could be reconfigured I intended
to suggest that the report could be redesigned by a developer to expose
additional settings as required to enable saving it to be open-able without
first opening the desired register.

David C

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Robin Chattopadhyay <robinraymn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've tested the report several times under varying use cases and
> cross-checked against both pen & paper and a spreadsheet, so I'm fairly
> confident that it's reporting what I want it to report.
>
> David C. suggested saving the register report and I certainly could do
> that. Honestly, it hadn't occurred to me to save the report. The catch is
> that this report doesn't currently allow you to select/change the account
> at runtime, so I would have to create a separate, saved report for each
> account I wanted to report on.
>
> That could get unwieldy as there are some 40 different accounts that need
> reported on (multiple commodities across a range of accounts: retirement,
> college savings, health savings, regular brokerage, etc.)
>
> As for your question, "Why?" I want my balance sheet to mirror the cost
> basis that my 401k provider comes up with. (Before anyone says it, this is
> for my own performance tracking, not tax reporting).
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Wm via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> > On 06/03/2018 01:25, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:
> >
> >> Hi-
> >>
> >> Using Linux Mint 18.3, Gnucash 2.6.19...
> >>
> >> There's a report I like to use called Account Report. You can get to it
> >> after opening a register. I use this report to see what gnc has as the
> >> cost
> >> basis for an investment.
> >>
> >
> > I'm not sure that was how it was meant to be used so it may be that it is
> > occasional that it is producing the number you expect or want :)
> >
> > Because of the way my 401(k) provider calculates cost basis, I have found
> >> that the only way to properly track realized gains/losses in gnc is to
> >> manually make the entries myself. So I use this report and set the
> options
> >> to Amount = SINGLE and tick the 'Value' option. The net Value Change
> >> neatly
> >> reflects my cost basis (assuming there are no filters and all
> transactions
> >> in the account are visible).
> >>
> >
> > That sounds good.
> >
> > My question is: Can I go somewhere and change the defaults for this
> report
> >> so that I don't have to select them every time? For any other report, I
> >> would save the report to ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.4 and just select
> the
> >> account I wanted to report on.
> >>
> >
> > I can save a register report on windows, I haven't tried on another OS to
> > see if it is different there.
> >
> >
> >> But this report doesn't have an option to select the account so my next
> >> thought was to change the defaults.
> >>
> >
> > Are you, perhaps, trying to make a report do something it wasn't intended
> > to do ?  If so why ?
> >
> > Is there anything unusual that you think might be preventing you from
> > saving it for reuse other than not understanding what is being reported?
> >
> > --
> > Wm
> >
> >
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