[GNC] Simple reporting help

[Michelle]

Hi Geoff,

That did the trick. Many thanks.

I do wish that on the General tab, Start date drop down, that they had
an option for, "Since the beginning of time." :-)

But that's given me exactly what I need. 

Many thanks for your help,

Michelle.


On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 22:24 +1100, Geoff wrote:
> Hi Michelle
> 
> One way to achieve this is to use the Transaction Report.
> 
> After selecting the relevant Account(s), stay in Options and tick 
> "Subtotal Table" on the Display tab, then select "Date" as the
> Primary 
> Key and "Yearly" as the Primary Subtotal on the Sorting tab.
> 
> You should get the subtotals at the start of the report, followed by
> all 
> the transactions.
> 
> See attached screenshot.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Geoff
> =====
> 
> On 26/10/2020 8:39 pm, Michelle wrote:
> > Apologies for a newbie question. I've been using GnuCash for many
> > years
> > but I do little reporting with it.
> > 
> > What I'm trying to do is look at annual expenditure for a specific
> > account/catagory.
> > 
> > eg. I have - -cat:Car:Fuel ... and I want to know how much I've
> > spent
> > on fuel each year, over the last ten years.
> > 
> > I've tried a number of report options, but I'm not hitting the
> > right
> > report.
> > 
> > Could someone kindly help please.
> > 
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