Thanks, that's very helpful. I followed your recommendations and I like the report much better now.
One thing, how do I make the column width for Description narrower. Do I have to use Edit->Style Sheets to do that? Tom On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 12:46 PM R Losey <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 9:48 AM Tom Balazs <tom123onl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I finished importing and reconciling months of bank data. Now I want to >> put >> that to good use. >> >> For the case of an individual or a family, what are the most useful >> reports? >> >> Common advice is that your emergency savings account should hold enough to >> cover 6 months of expenses. In order to to do that, I need to know my >> average monthly expenses. I guess I can use the Cash Flow report, look at >> "Money Out" and divide that by how many months have gone by in the year. >> Is >> there a better way to get average monthly expenses? >> >> I like the Cash Flow report. But I wish I could sort it by amount, high to >> low. That would be good to see as a stacked bar chart or a regular bar >> chart. >> >> I would like to see a multiple-account balance as a line chart or a bar >> chart. In a way that shows me balances over time. >> >> I guess I'm mostly interested in the Income and Expense reports, but also >> in Assets and Liabilities. >> >> What reports do you find useful? >> >> Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > > The Transaction Report is excellent. > > You'll need to select your accounts (you can start with selecting all of > the Expense accounts - possibly Income as well, but the real key is to go > into the Options display, go to the Sorting tab, change the Secondary key > to "Date" with a monthly subtotal. Also go to the Display tab, scroll down > and enable the "Subtotal Table". > > You will then have, at the top of the report, for each month in your > selected range, an amount by month with an average at the end. > > I find this very useful. > > -- > _________________________________ > Richard Losey > rlo...@gmail.com > Micah 6:8 > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
