[GNC] Expense Over Time report

[Geoff]

Hi Gord

It appears that L3 is both a parent of L4 and has transactions worth 
$100 itself.

Thus reporting on L3 is ambiguous - do you want only its transactions 
($100), or its transactions plus the sum of its children ($100 + $500 = 
$600)?

I suggest that you only record transactions against the lowest level 
children accounts in your hierarchy (the "leaves" and not the "branches").

Hope this helps.

Regards

Geoff
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On 20/02/2021 10:07 am, gnu Gord wrote:
> I'm trying to understand this report and it just isn't working the way I
> expect.
> Below is a screenshot of my test chart of accounts, for reference.
> I have one expense of $100 in account L3 and one expense of $500 in account
> L4
> 
> If I ask for an Expense Over Time report and select L3 and* "Show Accounts
> until Level" 3*, I get $600 in the report. If I select *"Show Accounts
> until level" 4*, I get $100
> If I select 2 or 1 in the "Show Account until level" I get nothing, which
> is OK.
> If I select 5 or 6 I get the same output as 4.
> 
> This is not the way I expected it to work.
> I'm not really clear what the "Show Accounts until level" option is used
> for. If I can select the account I want to be included/excluded in the
> report why do I need to also specify the level?
> 
> Version: 4.4
> Build ID: 4.4+(2020-12-28)
> 
> 
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