Re: Adding quantity to expenses

2017-08-02 Thread Christopher Lam
You can also abuse the Currency feature. Create account called Assets:Cheese (currency CHF sounds appropriate!). Amend its symbol to 'kg'. Transfer from USD $8 in Assets:Bank to 0.8kg in Assets:Cheese, and the commodity editor will pop up ($10 = 1kg). Eating cheese means transferring some kg fro

Re: Adding quantity to expenses

2017-08-02 Thread prl
That's what I do for our car fuel purchases, with a note like: 436.9km@38.43l 8.80l/100km (27/30 mpg (US/Imp), for those who still measure things that way ;) ) Manually calculated, but in a standard format, so that if I wanted to extract data to look at things like like averages or trends, or

Re: Adding quantity to expenses

2017-08-02 Thread storyjesse
I agree that the business bills feature might be overkill for what you are wanting to accomplish. Are you aware that you can perform simple calculations in debit/credit fields? If you enter a transaction like this: When you press tab y

Re: Adding quantity to expenses

2017-08-02 Thread Maf. King
On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:47:02 BST edamiani wrote: > Hi, I started using GnuCash with the goal of tracking my expenses and > generating reports, but one important thing for me would be storing the > quantity of an expense and automatically generating the resulting expense > from that. For insta