Lost in all the entreaties to experiment with the reports (aside: sometimes people just want a report to work) is the fact that the OP very clearly felt that the account selection feature in most reports is not resilient or helpful.
I agree. Selecting accounts in even a moderately complex set of books can be tedious and error-prone. Add in the fact that new accounts in a tree that was previously fully selected won't get added automatically, and you have a recipe for bleary eyed users failing to notice that their taxes are off because one new account wasn't properly added to their annual report. Then they get the pleasure of filing amended returns.... David T. On May 19, 2025, 8:45 PM, at 8:45 PM, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" <stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >On 2025-05-19 09:48, R Losey wrote: >> Having come from a Quicken background, where reports work "out of the >box", >> the reports in GnuCash have been difficult. >> >> I know that I have gaps in my understanding of accounting and >bookkeeping. >> I have had very little problems using GnuCash's double-entry method. >> >> But you are correct in that I am lacking knowledge in some of the >report >> areas - I don't think that is a lack of knowledge of double-entry >> accounting, however. > >In my opinion, the best advice for learning to configure reports comes >in three words: experiment, experiment, experiment. When trying a new >report, I make it a point to look at every setting in the Options for >that report and try things until I get what I want on the report. It's >not always obvious from the screen what an option will do; hence my >advice to experiment. > >For instance, I found by experiment that both the Balance Sheet and the >Income Statement worked just fine when I clicked "Select All" on the >account selection one of the report options window. The Balance Sheet >showed Assets, Liabilities, and Equity accounts, not Income and >Expenses >accounts, despite that word "All", and the Income Statement showed >Income and Expense accounts and ignored Assets, Liabilities, and >Equity. > >-- >Stan Brown >Tehachapi, CA, USA >https://BrownMath.com >_______________________________________________ >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. _______________________________________________ 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.
