[GNC] Job Expenses? Job Profit Reports?

[Adrien Monteleone]

The short answer is, "you can't." 'Jobs' aren't quite what the name 
implies. Rather, think 'Purchase Order'.

There are various use cases the 'Jobs' feature does not work for:

Multiple Customers (and even split with stock orders) for the same Job. 
Yeah, I know this sounds weird, but if a Job is really just a PO, it is 
not un-common to place a single PO with a Vendor that covers not only 
items for multiple customers, but also for stock inventory.

The Job assigned to a Vendor and the Job assigned to a Customer are 
*not* the same 'job' despite them both having the same 'job name'.

The intended use case is extremely limited.

There are several other threads about job/project/property reporting. 
Other than using outside software entirely, you have perhaps 4 options:

1. Create special expense/income accounts for each job/project/property 
and only include those in the relevant reports. The drawback is 
cluttering your CoA, especially if such special accounts aren't 
on-going. (easier for rental properties, less so for one-offs)

2. Use your own 'tags' in various fields to identify what 
job/project/property the expense/revenue applies to. Then use the 
Transaction Report, exporting to a spreadsheet if needed to make it 
pretty the way you want.

3. Modify the P&L/Income Statement to use the report Option to filter 
based on various fields like the Transaction Report can. (the included 
P&L doesn't have this option)

4. Craft your own entirely custom report that uses these 'tags'.

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I say 'tags' because GnuCash doesn't have that as an established 
feature. You'd simply include text with an identifier like '@' '#' et 
cetera before the tag text and put that tag in one of the 'Description' 
'Notes' 'Memos' or 'Action' fields as you find useful.

Regards,
Adrien

On 9/21/21 1:26 AM, Christian Peritore wrote:
> Looking everywhere for this function but can't seem to find it.
> 
> How to connect a given Job to any Expense? Then how to Report a Job's net profit (and connected total Expenses and total Income)?
> 
> Entering Expenses doesn't seem to offer a Job to spend against. I presume I need to bring the Expense into an Invoice manually? Ok...
> 
> But then how to view the total of Expenses for a given Job, thus it's net profit?