[GNC] Best way to track expenses for trips

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 7/27/26 12:30, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
> On 2026-07-27 11:14, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
>> Assign each trip a unique code/word/ID and ensure that went into the
>> description field for each expense.  That way if a couple of trips
>> overlapped on dates you could separate them.
> Could you say a bit more about what a user would do? I looked in the
> options for the Income Statement, and there doesn't seem to be a way to
> tell it to filter based on Description, Memo, or Notes.
Since you are tracking only Expenses (saw nothing about Income in the 
original request), I wouldn't use any form of Income Statement, 
Profit/Loss Statement, etc.

This is strictly a Transaction Report which does include all the 
filtering needed.
>> On 7/27/26 10:19, Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) wrote:
>>> Assuming this is vacation, not a trip for business, as each expense
>>> occurs I debit Expenses:Vacations, credit the appropriate credit card or
>>> cash account, and put details on the Description line.
>>>
>>> I've never wanted a report for this specifically, but if I did I would
>>> filter by dates in the report options.
>>>
>>> Stan Brown
>>> Tehachapi, CA, USA
>>> https://BrownMath.com
>>>
>>> On 2026-07-27 10:04, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
>>>> Just want to get refresher in how someone would track all expenses -
>>>> flights, boarding, individual tariffs, etc. -- related to a trip but
>>>> without
>>>> creating new account for it and later be able to generate a report per
>>>> individual trip to see how much it was.