[GNC] Household monthly reporting

[Tom Route-36]

Hi Ed,

When you enter transactions into your credit card account or checking 
account are you ITEMIZING each transaction IN DETAIL?  For example, if I 
have a credit card transaction for repairing a vehicle at a repair shop, 
I will have MULTIPLE splits in the ONE transaction that I enter into my 
credit card account.  And each of those splits will reference my 
vehicle's Expenses:Auto:Repairs account.  One of the Repairs splits 
might be the cost of replacing the washer pump. Another of the Repairs 
splits might be for lubing the axles.  A third split might be for 
replacing a drive belt.  All three of those splits are listed in that 
one transaction in my credit card account.  But each of those three 
splits are also now recorded against that Repairs account.

So if I go and look at my Expenses:Auto:Repairs account I'll see all 
three splits there as well.  And if I want an itemized report of 
everything I spent on my vehicle, I just go and print out a Cash Flow 
report of my Expenses:Auto:Repairs account.  That will show every item 
that I spent money on in detail.  The main point though is that you need 
to record ALL that information in detail up front when you record that 
single transaction in your credit card account.  Otherwise it won't be 
there in detail when you go to look in your Repairs account later.

Tom



On 9/19/2025 11:23 PM, Ed Greenberg wrote:
> I'm trying to do a household monthly report. I've considered both the 
> income statement and the cash flow report. Here are my results:
> 
> Income statement: Very good report, but doesn't include the principal 
> and escrow portions of my mortgage payment. Only the interest. So the 
> P&L doesn't tell me if I'm overspending.
> 
> Cash flow report: I set this for my checking account. The cash flow in 
> and out shows what I spent out of my checking account, including 
> mortgage principal, interest and escrow,  but much of my spending was on 
> a credit card. I pay the entire credit card balance, so it shows up as a 
> cash flow item, but there is no itemization. If I were carrying a 
> balance, I'd have more of a problem using this to manage my spending.
> 
> So what I want is a report of all my spending: credit card, checking 
> account, one liability debit (mortgage loan) and one asset debit 
> (mortgage escrow.) This would show me whether I had overspent my income 
> or not, and by how much.
> 
> Is this even possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed Greenberg
> 
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