[GNC] Household monthly reporting

Ed Greenberg edg at greenberg.org
Sat Sep 20 10:30:23 EDT 2025


I will give it a try and report back.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 08:58 Steve Waltner <swaltner at mac.com> wrote:

> For the Cash Flow report, transactions are reported in the report if they
> go to an account not listed in the account list for the report. If your
> Credit Card Liability account is not listed in the account list on the
> report, you will see a “single” monthly payment to the credit card paying
> the balance of the card, but not the individual transactions that ran up
> the card’s balance. If the card is listed in the account list, you won’t
> see the monthly payment, but you will see the transactions for items you
> purchased.
>
> As mentioned, add the card to the report and try again. Run the default
> report, select Options, select Accounts, add your credit card accounts to
> the list of accounts in the report, select OK. Once the report gives the
> details you want, save a customized version of the report using "Reports >
> Save Report Configuration As…”. You can then retrieve your custom report in
> the future using “Reports > Saved Report Configurations”.
>
> Steve
>
> On Sep 20, 2025, at 7:00 AM, Ed Greenberg <edg at greenberg.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Almost always, I am entering transactions as a single set of entries. Debit
> expense and credit the credit card liability. Occasionally, something has
> to be split. For instance, I split the cable bill between TV and internet.
>
> The main issue for me is not the level of detail that you have described,
> but trying to capture the fact that I paid a mixture of expense and
> liability as part of the monthly cash flow.
>
> Ed
>
>


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