Reports/Budgets with multiple time periods?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Apr 11 10:18:18 EDT 2008


Hi,

Matt Benic <mattbenic at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I recently moved all my personal financial data over from a collection 
> of spreadsheets to GnuCash (nice and easy thanks to the quicken 
> imports), and while the actual capturing and account management is 
> great, I'm really struggling to get the kind of useful information out 
> of the reports I was able to get with a couple of spreadsheets. I gather 
>>From posts in this mailing list that the budget functionality is pretty 
> much a write-off.
>
> Essentially, in my spreadsheets I was able to total categorized 
> expenditure and income using selective addition, this equates to 
> reporting on individual accounts I have set up. I could then  have a 
> report with  past values per categories and forward projections on each 
> category and account balances calculated based on those past values. Is 
> this kind of reporting (essentially a report with data from multiple 
> time periods) at all possible in GnuCash currently?

I'm not quite sure I understand what you're asking here.  Yes, it is
possible to select which set of accounts get included in reports.  You
can also set the date range on the report.  All this is possible in
the individual Report Options.  But I'm not sure what you mean by
"multiple time periods".

> Thanks,
> Matt

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-derek

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