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==Introduction==
 
==Introduction==
 
GnuCash is a complex piece of software with many features and possibilities. It requires some learning and experience to work fluently and effectively with it.
 
GnuCash is a complex piece of software with many features and possibilities. It requires some learning and experience to work fluently and effectively with it.
  
To get you started, it comes with a good [http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/ Concepts Guide], that will introduce you to some basic accounting concepts and explains how GnuCash works with those principles.
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To get you started, it comes with a good [{{URL:docs:guide}}index.html Concept Guide], which will introduce you to some basic accounting concepts and explain how GnuCash works with those principles.
  
A second helpful source of information is the [http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-help/help.html GnuCash Manual], which is sort of a reference to all the menu options and dialogs in GnuCash. At the time of this writing, it is in need of an update as some new features in GnuCash aren't documented yet.
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A second helpful source of information is the [{{URL:docs:manual}}index.html GnuCash Manual], which is a reference to the menu options and dialogs in GnuCash.
  
These two documents cover only a part of what GnuCash can do. This is to be expected as there are as many use cases as there are users of the tool. It would be impossible to contain all of these use cases in a manageable static document.
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These two documents cover only a part of what GnuCash can do. This is to be expected, as there are practically as many use cases as there are users of the tool. It would be impossible to contain all of these use cases in a manageable static document. Instead, this page and the ones linked to below will show ways to deal with specific problems. The examples and solutions provided reflect solutions found by users of GnuCash for real world scenarios.  
  
Instead, this page and the ones linked to below will show ways to deal with specific problems. The examples and solutions are provided by users of GnuCash, most of them use (or have used) these solutions in real world scenarios.  
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If you know a solution to a particular problem while using GnuCash, you are welcome to add it to these pages as well.
  
If you know a solution to a particular problem while using GnuCash, you are welcome to add it to these pages as well.
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Alternatively you can send it to the [mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org GnuCash user mailing list]:
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# You need to be [{{URL:mail info}} subscribed] before you can post to this list without moderation.
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# Use a <tt>Subject</tt> in the lines of "GnuCash tip" or something similar, so it is easily recognized.
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:More details in [[Mailing Lists]].
  
Alternatively you can send it to the [mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org GnuCash user mailing list] ('''Note:''' you need to be [https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user subscribed] before you can post to this list). Use a subject in the lines of "GnuCash tip" or something similar, so it is easily recognized.
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== General Advice ==
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* [[GnuCash Quick Start Guide For Business Users]]. This is a quick start guide with some focus on the needs of business users.
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* [[Documentation|List to external international documentation]] and the official list of [{{URL:www}}docs.phtml available online documentation]
  
To keep some overview, the examples and solutions are grouped per context in GnuCash.
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Here is a section of helpful tips on the use and functionality of GnuCash.
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*[[Keyboard Shortcuts]]
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* [[GnuCash on the Command Line]]
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* Using [[Scheduled Transactions]]
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* Online Banking: [[Setting up OFXDirectConnect]] and [[AqBanking]] (FinTS/HBCI)
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* [[Trading Accounts]]
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* [[Void Transactions]]
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* [[:Category:Cookbooks & Examples]]
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* Some examples can be written in other [[:Category:Lingua|langages]] or [[:Category:Region|region]] specific.
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* Some users have published their in [[Python_Bindings#Example_Usages|Python]] written tools.
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* [[Zero-Based Budgeting]]
  
==Register Tips==
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== Register Tips ==
  
 
===Moving Multiple Transactions===
 
===Moving Multiple Transactions===
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If you are trying move ''all'' (or MOST) of an account's transactions, you can get GnuCash to re-designate all your transactions at once by asking GnuCash to DELETE the account in question. For accounts that have transactions in them, GnuCash will ask whether you want to completely delete the transactions, or move them to a different account. Select the account you want all your transactions to go, and they will be moved. (To delete an account, open the Accounts window, select the account you want to delete, and click the Delete button).
 
If you are trying move ''all'' (or MOST) of an account's transactions, you can get GnuCash to re-designate all your transactions at once by asking GnuCash to DELETE the account in question. For accounts that have transactions in them, GnuCash will ask whether you want to completely delete the transactions, or move them to a different account. Select the account you want all your transactions to go, and they will be moved. (To delete an account, open the Accounts window, select the account you want to delete, and click the Delete button).
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===Move Transactions to Another GnuCash File===
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'''Note:''' Ensure backups are current then work with a temporary copy of original files and confirm the changes before overwriting original files.
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Although accounts can have the same name in different files the GUIDs are unique, so they are different accounts. Moving transactions is a manual process to export transactions by account to csv and import them into another file (see [[CSV Import/Export]]). The first page of the export wizard gives guidance on which settings to select.
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It might be easier to export the account(s) containing more transactions than need to be moved then edit the csv file in a spreadsheet or text editor.
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After confirming the transactions have been moved they can be deleted manually from the first file then confirmed again before overwriting original files.
  
 
===Import transactions from another program===
 
===Import transactions from another program===
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You should have read [{{URL:docs:manual}}trans-import.html Help:Importing Transactions from Files].
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:;See also: [[CSV Import/Export]]
 
Easy way to import a large amount of transactions from another your program (import from bank isn't covered by this tip)
 
Easy way to import a large amount of transactions from another your program (import from bank isn't covered by this tip)
  
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QIF format is simple and other programs can easy produce it. GnuCash's QIF importer is also easy to use and comes with self explaining wizard incorporated.
 
QIF format is simple and other programs can easy produce it. GnuCash's QIF importer is also easy to use and comes with self explaining wizard incorporated.
  
You can find QIF format description on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicken_Interchange_Format Wikipedia] or ask uncle [http://www.google.com/search?&q=qif+format Google].
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You can find QIF format description on [{{URL:wp}}Quicken_Interchange_Format Wikipedia] or ask uncle [https://www.google.com/search?&q=qif+format Google].
  
 
''--Provided by Pietro B.''
 
''--Provided by Pietro B.''
  
 
==Reporting Tips==
 
==Reporting Tips==
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As of GnuCash 2.6.15, the Tutorial & Concepts Guide contains a [{{URL:docs:guide}}ch_reports.html Reports chapter]. Please refer to the Guide for details about the reports included with GnuCash.
  
 
====A single report that shows summary amounts for multiple months for multiple accounts====
 
====A single report that shows summary amounts for multiple months for multiple accounts====
To create a single report that shows summary amounts for multiple months for multiple accounts (for example, monthly totals for expense accounts over the course of a year), you can accomplish this with a little creative thinking. The trick is to use Gnucash's Budgeting features.
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To create a single report that shows summary amounts for multiple months for multiple accounts (for example, monthly totals for expense accounts over the course of a year), you can use the Transaction Report
 
 
:#First, create a Budget that includes the accounts upon which you ultimately want to base your report and a date range that is useful to you. Save this budget.
 
:#Next, create a budget report, and in the options for this report, deselect the "Show Budget Amounts" check box. The resulting report will list monthly transaction totals for each account in the budget.
 
 
 
This solution is not perfect (you must, for example, edit the budget to cover the date range you want, and then open the report), but it does give a spreadsheet-like summary of a subset of accounts by month.
 
  
''--Provided by David T.''
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:#Choose your Accounts as the Accounts source in the Accounts tab, e.g. highlight "Expenses" and click "Select children"
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:#Set sortkeys in the Sorting tab: Primary key is Account Name, Primary subtotal is enabled. Secondary key is Date, secondary subtotal for date key is Monthly
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:#Enable Subtotal table in the Display tab
  
 
====Quicken-like "Overview" of your accounts====
 
====Quicken-like "Overview" of your accounts====
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''--Provided by Mike Leone''
 
''--Provided by Mike Leone''
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====Displaying Split Account Details in Transaction Report====
 
====Displaying Split Account Details in Transaction Report====
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To display the additional split detail, you need to set
 
To display the additional split detail, you need to set
General -> Style = Multi-Line and then you need to turn on Display ->
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Display -> Detail Level = Multi-Line and then you need to turn on Display ->
Account Name.  Do NOT turn on Display -> Other Account Name.
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Account Name.  Display -> Other Account Name is automatically disabled.
  
 
You can choose whether or not to turn off the full account name using
 
You can choose whether or not to turn off the full account name using
 
Display -> Use Full Account Name?   
 
Display -> Use Full Account Name?   
 
The Use Full Other Account Name? has no effect in this
 
configuration.
 
  
 
''--Provided by Derek Atkins (in response to Colin Scott)''
 
''--Provided by Derek Atkins (in response to Colin Scott)''
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This should load report in a Calc sheet. From here you can make tweaks as you like.
 
This should load report in a Calc sheet. From here you can make tweaks as you like.
  
==Reports Included in GnuCash==
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====Printing a Rental Report====
 
 
This section (in progress; started on GnuCash 2.2.9 and now being updated to GnuCash 2.4.13) includes a small amount of information about the standard reports in GnuCash, including when they might be used and some of the options. Information about each report might include how the report is used, common alternatives, and some of the options that make the report adaptable to different situations.
 
 
 
===Assets & Liabilities (Group)===
 
====Advanced Portfolio====
 
 
 
The Advanced Portfolio report produces reports dependent upon price information collected by the optional stock price retrieval features of GnuCash. (If you have not installed and used the additional stock price retrieval software, the report will indicate an error.)
 
 
 
====Asset Barchart====
 
 
 
The Asset Barchart report displays bars that present the value of all assets in a Gnucash file on a monthly basis. By default, the report shows all accounts in Current Assets and Special Accounts, and it displays monthly bars for the current financial period. This report provides a graphic view of the assets in the file over time.
 
 
 
====Asset Piechart====
 
 
 
====Average Balance====
 
 
 
====Balance Sheet====
 
A Balance sheet report lists Asset, Liability, and Equity account balances for
 
all such accounts, and provides totals on a given date. Balance sheets are
 
commonly run for the last day of each fiscal year to give an overall sense of
 
the financial condition of the entity.
 
 
 
====General Journal====
 
 
 
The General Journal produces a register of all transactions (beginning to end) in order by date, showing the accounts and the amounts moved among them, and totals the Net Change by all currencies and assets. This report is not customizable by date or account, though you can include more or fewer details about the individual transactions, and whether or not to include running balances and totals for the credits and debits. If you need a report restricted to particular accounts, you might want to look at the [[#Transaction Report]] or open a particular account and choose the [[#Account Transaction Report]].
 
 
 
====General Ledger====
 
====Investment Portfolio====
 
====Liability Barchart====
 
====Liability Piechart====
 
====Net Worth Barchart====
 
====Price Scatterplot====
 
 
 
===Budget (Group)===
 
''to be done''
 
 
 
===Business (group)===
 
====Customer Report====
 
====Customer Summary Report====
 
 
 
The "Customer Summary Report" is a customer profit report, it can help
 
with job analysis by comparing the income and expenses for a specific
 
customer.  Under the options for the report a tab labeled "Expense
 
Accounts" will allow the selection of one or many expense accounts.
 
Likewise the tab for "Income Accounts" will allow the selection of one
 
or more income accounts.  The tab for "Display" will allow sorting by
 
name, profit percentage, or amount of profit.  The "No Customer" is a
 
warning that the report may be inaccurate, as the results are not all
 
properly labeled.
 
 
 
Possible use scenarios:
 
 
 
Tracking retail sales from different cities:
 
Income:Princeton Showroom Sales
 
Income:Beckley Showroom Sales
 
Expense:Princeton COGS
 
Expense:Beckley COGS
 
 
 
Tracking rental properties:
 
Income:Downtown
 
Income:Northwestern
 
Income:Park Ave
 
Expense:Downtown
 
Expense:Northwestern
 
Expense:Park Ave
 
 
 
Tracking types of business:
 
Income:Labor
 
Income:Materials
 
Expense:Labor
 
Expense:Cost of Goods Sold
 
 
 
Tracking commission sales:
 
Income:Robert Sales
 
Income:Micah Sales
 
Expense:Robert COGS
 
Expense:Micah COGS
 
 
 
So to get the most out of the report use the Income & Expense tabs to
 
hone down the information displayed on the report.  By default it
 
includes all income and expense accounts, GnuCash can't really predict
 
the names and classification of income and expense accounts.  To be
 
useful out of the box, any thing that happened income or expense wise
 
shows up as "No Customer": Rent, Paychecks, Utilities, Bank Charges..
 
everything.  Luckily it is easy to remove this information, if it is
 
distracting.  It can also shed a light on how much information is being
 
ignored, if the settings are overly selective the report might look
 
good, but only be showing 10% of the picture.
 
 
 
Why does the information look out of place by default:
 
 
 
All invoices have an "Owner" in GnuCash speak, so any invoices made will
 
show a customer and make it to the report.  When creating a "Bill" the
 
"Default Chargeback Customer" is blank, and often gets underused.  To
 
use the profit report this needs to be utilized, this is the tag that
 
decides which line to attach the expense.  Without a customer the bill
 
will belong to "No Customer", when entering income in a random register
 
instead of creating an invoice, it  will also  belong to "No Customer",
 
but that doesn't happen very often.
 
 
 
Inventory based businesses won't benefit as much because of the nature
 
of the report.  Currently there isn't a way to avoid this.  Creating
 
invoices for items out of inventory usually shows as 100% profit, hardly
 
reality.  The best way to handle this is to use a different income
 
account and exclude it from the report, if that won't over-complicate
 
the entry of invoices.  Once you get on a good start the invoice line
 
item auto-fill will help remember the accounts for inventory items.
 
 
 
''--Provided by Robert L Brush III via gnucash-users''
 
 
 
 
 
====Easy Invoice====
 
====Employee Report====
 
====Fancy Invoice====
 
====Payable Aging====
 
====Printable Invoice====
 
====Receivable Aging====
 
 
 
This report provides a listing of all customers, their current balance, and how much
 
they have outstanding from invoices over different time periods -- how much
 
they owe from 0-30 days, from 31-60 days, from 61-90 days, and over 90
 
days.  The report also contains links to each customer and to their current
 
customer report. 
 
 
 
''--quoting Buddha Buck via GnuCash-Users''
 
 
 
====Vendor Report====
 
 
 
===Income & Expense (group)===
 
====Budget Report====
 
====Cash Flow====
 
The Cash Flow Report shows the change in value for a set of accounts (the flow of cash) over a given period of time. Be default, this report uses the data file's assets accounts as the base set of accounts. {Special Accounts are also selected by default? This is not known} It uses the current financial period as the default time period. The report enumerates all money coming in to and going out of the base accounts, in different sections. The amounts for each account are provided, along with totals.
 
 
 
====Equity Statement====
 
 
 
The Equity Statement can be seen as extension of the Balance Sheet report.
 
 
 
The Balance Sheets states the balance of Assets, Liabilities and Equity for a specific point of time.
 
 
 
The Equity Statement puts focus on the Equity Accounts by showing the cashflow to and from them for a given period of time (as set in the report options).
 
 
 
By Balancing this cashflow with the income, the report states the available "Capital" at the beginning and at the end of this time period.
 
 
 
====Expense Barchart====
 
The Expense Barchart (also known as Expense over Time) report shows a set of vertical bars, with the vertical axis indicating the amount, and the horizontal axis indicating time periods (such as quarters, months, or weeks). The report aggregates the amounts in the selected amounts. Report options enable you to adjust the horizontal and vertical sizes, step size (time periods), number of bars, and whether or not to include the detailed amounts in a table below the graph.
 
 
 
To create a chart for income accounts, see [[#Income Barchart]].
 
 
 
====Expense Piechart====
 
The Expense Piechart report totals transactions for income accounts over a specified financial period, and presents the totals as graphical "wedges" of the aggregate total "pie." You might use such a report to get a "big-picture" overview of some of the largest expenses in your accounts. By default, the chart displays a maximum of 7 wedges, which limits the display the largest six wedges and combining all the remaining items into a seventh wedge marked "other."
 
 
 
To generate a pie chart display of your income accounts, use the [[#Income Piechart]] report.
 
 
 
====Expenses vs. Day of Week====
 
====Income Barchart====
 
The Income Barchart (also known as Income over Time) report shows a set of vertical bars, with the vertical axis indicating the amount, and the horizontal axis indicating time periods (such as quarters, months, or weeks). The report aggregates the amounts in the selected amounts. Report options enable you to adjust the horizontal and vertical sizes, step size (time periods), number of bars, and whether or not to include the detailed amounts in a table below the graph.
 
 
 
To create a chart for expense accounts, see [[#Expense Barchart]].
 
 
 
====Income & Expense Chart====
 
====Income Piechart====
 
The Income Piechart report totals transactions for income accounts over a specified financial period, and presents the totals as graphical "wedges" of the aggregate total "pie." You might use such a report to get a "big-picture" overview of some of the largest income sources in your accounts. By default, the chart displays a maximum of 7 wedges, which limits the display the largest six wedges and combining all the remaining items into a seventh wedge marked "other."
 
 
 
To generate a pie chart display of your expense accounts, use the [[#Expense Piechart]] report.
 
  
====Income Statement====
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GnuCash does not have a special Rental Statement report. You need to decide if it is easier to do this in GnuCash or use the data from existing GnuCash reports to prepare the report in other software. This process describes preparing a rental statement in a spreadsheet for a cash accounting system assuming tenant pays into a bank account.
An Income Statement report is also called a "Profit and Loss" report or "Revenue Statement."
 
  
In earlier versions of Gnucash, this report was called "Profit & Loss," but with GnuCash version 2, the report was re-named "Income Statement" to use more common accounting terminology.  
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Example:
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A lease is commenced with T Smith on 1 Mar 2020 with rent of $250 per week payable each 4 weeks. Tenant must also pay water usage.
  
This report lists Income and Expense account totals for a set period.  By default it shows all Expense and Income accounts (down to 3 levels of sub-accounts) for the current financial period.
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Bank transactions:
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<Syntaxhighlight lang="Console">
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Bank Statement
  
The Income Statement helps show where your money is coming from, and where it is going for a given time period.
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Date          Description  Withdrawal  Deposit
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06/03/2020  T Smith                    750.00
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28/04/2020  T Smith                  2,000.00
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01/05/2020  WaterCo          35.00         
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</Syntaxhighlight>
  
====Income vs. Day of Week====
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<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="show more" data-collapsetext="hide me">
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In GnuCash the Water transaction is split into Expense:Water:Supply $20 and Expense:Water:Usage $15
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
  
The Income vs. Day of Week report presents a pie chart showing the totals for selected income accounts totaled by the day of the week of the transaction. The report options enable you to make some adjustments (such as accounts, display options, and the date range) but the account selector only allows income accounts to be chosen. The report aggregates income transactions by day of week, not by any other period or category. Due to these limitations, the report may be considered a demonstration or an example to someone wanting to examine the source code for composing a useful custom report.
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<Syntaxhighlight lang="Console">
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Transaction Report
  
====Trial Balance====
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From 01/01/2020 to 15/05/2020
  
===Sample & Custom (group)===
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Date        Description Memo/Notes Transfer from/to                Debit    Credit
====Custom Multicolumn Report====
 
This selection let's you combine several standard and custom reports into one view.
 
  
Initially this report comes up with an empty window.
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Assets:Current Assets:Checking Account
The selection is done through the report ''Options'', giving you the list of available reports from which you can select.
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06/03/2020 T Smith Rent          Income:Rent                      $750.00
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28/04/2020 T Smith Rent          Income:Rent                    $2,000.00
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01/05/2020 WaterCo                Split Transaction                          $35.00
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Total                                                            $2,715.00
  
Saving the the Multicolumn View is done similar to saving custom reports, see [[Using_GnuCash#Custom_Reports]].
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Expenses:Utilities:Water:Supply
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01/05/2020 WaterCo                Split Transaction                $20.00
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Total                                                                $20.00
  
====Sample Report with Examples====
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Expenses:Utilities:Water:Usage
====Welcome Sample Report====
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01/05/2020 WaterCo    T Smith    Split Transaction                $15.00
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Total                                                                $15.00
  
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Income:Rent
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06/03/2020 T Smith Rent          Assets:Current Assets:Checking            $750.00
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28/04/2020 T Smith Rent          Assets:Current Assets:Checking          $2,000.00
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Total                                                                      $2,750.00
  
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Grand Total                                                                    $0.00
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</Syntaxhighlight>
  
===Account Summary===
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</div>
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</div>
  
Lists accounts and subaccounts, with a total of account balances as of a particular date. By default, shows accounts and totals down to third-level subaccounts.
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Sample Spreadsheet Rental Statement:
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<Syntaxhighlight lang="Console">
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Rent Statement - T Smith Unit 83/2849 High Street MyCity 9999
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Payments are provisional upon tenant providing proof of payment
  
*Report Usage:
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Date          Due        Payment    Balance Owing  Notes
This report provides an overview of all (or selected) accounts. The totals on this report (if shown) include all transactions to the beginning of each account, so the amounts may only be useful for asset and liability accounts that you reconcile, or expense accounts after you have "closed the books" to a particular financial period. (Closing the books is NOT a requirement in GnuCash.)
 
  
This report gives effectively the same information as the accounts page (that shows the accounts tree). You can use this report to export and print the accounts page information and make it accessible and readible for some outside GnuCash, as it is not possible to directly print from the accounts page.
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01/03/2020  1,000.00                  1,000.00
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06/03/2020                750.00          250.00
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03/04/2020  1,000.00                  1,250.00
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01/05/2020  1,000.00                  2,250.00
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28/04/2020              2,000.00          250.00
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01/05/2020      15.00                    265.00  Water usage
  
*Suggested Alternatives:
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                      15 May 2020                      1 of 1
To generate a report of account totals over a particular period (especially if you do not close your books at regular intervals), you might consider using the [[#Income Statement]], [[#Cash Flow]], or [[#Budget Report]].
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</Syntaxhighlight>
  
*Report Options: <!-- I listed all the options, which is too much detail. This is a very customizable report. ~twt -->
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Process:
**Accounts tab: Choose accounts to display; levels of subaccounts; Depth limit behavior (how to handle any accounts lower than the set level of subaccounts -- choosing between Recursive Balance, Raise Accounts, or Omit Accounts).
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# Load bank transactions into GnuCash
**Commodities tab: Currency; Price Source (Average Cost, Weighted Average, Most Recent or Nearest in Time); Show Foreign Currencies; Show Exchange Rates
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# Print transaction report
**Display tab: Include accounts with zero total balances; Omit zero balance figures, Parent account balances (Account Balance, Subtotal, and Do not show); Parent account subtotals (Show subtotals, Do not show, or Text book style [experimental]); Display accounts as hyperlinks; Show accounting-style rules; Account balance; Account Code; Account Description; Account Type; Account Notes.
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# Open transaction report in spreadsheet
**General tab: Report name; Stylesheet (Default, Easy, and Technicolor); Report Title; Company Name; Date.
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# Copy/Paste values transactions with tenants bills and payments. Take more than needed and delete extra lines.
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# Append rent due transactions
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# Copy Date, Due and Payment – use copy/paste special values if rent due calculated with formula
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# Sort by Date Ascending and Payment descending
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# Format amounts and ensure blank line after heading
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# Calculate Balance Owing
  
===Custom Reports===
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Note: These steps can be done in a working sheet and saved to a statement template
Selecting this menu option will open a dialog window with a list of available Custom Reports.
 
  
In this context ''Custom Reports'' mean sets of customized settings for standard reports.
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''--Content provided by flywire and transferred from FAQ''
  
These sets need to be saved by the user before they show up in this list. This is how you do it:
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== Stocks and Commodities ==
  
# Go to the ''Reports'' Menu and choose the required report type<br>This will open the report with standard settings
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* [[stocks/add_stock|Add stock or mutual fund to portfolio]]
# Go to the report ''Options'' and change the settings<br>Do this repeatedly until this report type shows the info according to your needs
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* Get current [[Online Quotes]]
# Go to the report options, select the ''General'' section and change the ''Report Name'' to a significant term that let you remember the goal for the change settings<br>This will activate the ''File->Add Report'' entry.<br>Do not mix this up with the ''Report Title'', it only works for ''Report Name''
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* [[stocks/get_prices|Add historic prices to the price database]]
# Go to the ''File'' menu and select ''Add Report''<br>This will store the just customized report options in a file in your home directory<br>Linux Ubuntu: <code>~/.gnucash/saved-reports-<versioninfo></code>
 
 
 
Now your customized report is available for use by the ''Reports->Custom Reports'' entry and it will also be listed when starting ''Reports->Sample&Custom->Custom Multicolumn Report''.
 
 
 
Managing the customized reports is kept simple. The options to delete a custom report is given in the dialog window showing up when selecting ''Reports->Custom Reports''.
 
 
 
If you want to edit your custom reports, then
 
# open the report via ''Reports->Custom Reports''
 
# keep the tab open, and select ''Reports->Custom Reports'' again
 
# in the upcoming dialog window select the report
 
# press ''Delete'' and confirm
 
# press ''Cancel'' to get back to the opened report tab
 
and then go again through the procedure as listed on top of this section.
 
 
 
===Future Scheduled Transactions Summary===
 
''to be done''
 
 
 
===Tax Report & TXF Export===
 
 
 
Generates a report and a downloadable .txf file of taxable income and deductible expenses for a particular accounting period. To download the report data, choose the Export button on the toolbar and choose between html and .txf downloadable versions.
 
 
 
To use this report, you must use Edit --> Tax Options to identify which form the taxing authority uses for each income or expense account. (You can see but not modify the "Tax related" checkbox in Edit --> Edit Account.)
 
 
 
===Transaction Report===
 
 
 
This report lists the transactions in all accounts during a specified financial period. By default the report includes all accounts, subtotals the transactions by month and includes the totals for each account for the currently defined fiscal year.
 
 
 
===Account Report===
 
The Account Report is not meant to be run on a selected account. It can only be run from a ledger window in GnuCash . A ledger window is the tab-window that can be created e.g. by opening an account (double-click on an account in the accounts page) or by running a find (Edit->Find) which will list the find result in a ledger window.
 
 
 
The Account Report only appears on the Report menu when a ledger window is the current top window in GnuCash. You will not find it when looking at e.g. a report or the accounts page.
 
 
 
The Account Report produces a list of all transactions in the open ledger window.
 
 
 
You can use this report to export and print the transactions listed in a ledger window to make it readible and accessible for someone outside GnuCash.
 
 
 
===Account Transaction Report===
 
The Account Transaction Report has the same pre-requisites as the Account Report, but the Account Transaction Report only lists transaction that have been selected (e.g. by mouse click) in the current ledger window.
 
 
 
If now transaction is selected, an empty report will be generated.
 
(This is valid for 2.4.x. For 2.5.3 no report will be generated if no transaction is selected.)
 
 
 
You can use this report to export and print transaction data of a single transaction and make it accessible and readible for someone outside GnuCash.
 
 
 
If you need to see transactions in other accounts or for different dates, you could use the [[#Transaction Report]] or Find ( Edit --> Find ) to create an ad-hoc report.
 
 
 
== Stocks ==
 
 
 
* [[stocks/add_stock|Add stock to portfolio]]
 
* [[stocks/get_prices|Add historic stock quotes to the database]]
 
 
* [[Importing fund or stock prices from an OFX file]]
 
* [[Importing fund or stock prices from an OFX file]]
  
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Best regards, Ron
 
Best regards, Ron
  
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==Tracking Reimbursable Expenses==
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 +
It is not uncommon for people to incur expenses that are later reimbursed.
 +
Let's assume travel expenses are going to be reimbursed by your
 +
employer. In effect, you're making a loan to your employer, which
 +
creates an account receivable. This is an asset account, not an expense,
 +
so it is kept completely separate from your own expenses.
 +
 +
The simplest solution is to set up an account receivable,
 +
'''Assets:Accounts Receivable:Employer''' or similar.
 +
(If you don't have any other accounts receivable, you can skip the
 +
intermediate level and just create '''Assets:Due from Employer'''.)
 +
Then when you buy let's say airline tickets for an employer-required trip:
 +
    Debit: Due from Employer
 +
    Credit:(whichever credit card you used)
 +
When your employer reimburses you, it's:
 +
    Debit: Cash and Checking Accounts
 +
    Credit:Due from Employer
 +
 +
Your employer probably has some sort of form that you fill out for
 +
reimbursement. While you ''could'' complicate the above scheme to generate
 +
reports for that form, in my opinion, it's less work overall to just
 +
write the expenses on your employer's form when they happen, and
 +
separately record them in GnuCash.
 +
 +
Where the simple scheme above will definitely help is at income tax
 +
time. You'll be able to show that ''X'' amount of money received from your
 +
employer was a non-taxable reimbursement for expenses, not a taxable
 +
payment of salary.
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 +
Original discussion at {{URL:mail archive}}2022-November/103477.html
 
==Getting started with GnuCash' business features==
 
==Getting started with GnuCash' business features==
  
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''-- Provided by Geert Janssens''
 
''-- Provided by Geert Janssens''
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==Using third party software for data exploration and visualization==
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 +
You can use third party software like Excel, Tableau and Qlik Sense to explore and visualize GnuCash data through an ODBC connection as long as you save your data in sqlite format.
 +
 +
Here are instructions for Qlik Sense in Windows 10 (I chose Qlik Sense because it is a free download).
 +
 +
I wanted to visualize GnuCash transaction data without having to write templates and compile stuff, so I turned to QlikSense as they have a free personal edition (although similar steps would work for Tableau and other software that accepts ODBC connections). The trick is fairly simple:
 +
 +
# Download sqlite3 drivers (for windows: install the 64bit version from http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/)
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# Export your GnuCash data as a sqlite file
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# Configure the ODBC providers in your operating system to point to the Gnucash export
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## Open Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Data sources (ODBC)
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## Click on System DSN, then on Add
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## Select Sqlite3 ODBC Driver, then click Create
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## Provide a name for the connection (GnuCash)
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## Under Database Name, click on Browse and select the file you exported from GnuCash
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## Click Ok, then Ok again to close the previous dialog
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# Open QlikSense, create a new app, load data via ODBC, select System DNS and the source you created earlier
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# In the Data Editor, open or create a section and write some SQL. This is the trickiest part. See an example below.
 +
# The results of the queries are automatically joined through columns of the same name; go into your app overview and start editing a sheet. The charts and tables you add will be tied together automatically!
 +
 +
Sample SQL Queries:
 +
 +
<pre>
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LIB CONNECT TO [GnuCash];
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 +
//*
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[expense_accounts]:
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SQL SELECT
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accounts.name AS parent_account,
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    p_acc.name AS account,
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    p_acc.hidden AS account_is_hidden,
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    p_acc.placeholder AS account_is_placeholder
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FROM accounts
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INNER JOIN accounts AS p_acc ON p_acc.parent_guid = accounts.guid
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WHERE accounts.account_type = 'EXPENSE'
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AND accounts.hidden = 0
 +
    AND p_acc.hidden = 0;
 +
//*/
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</pre>
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User G2010a has a [{{URL:GH}}g2010a/gnucash-queries repository] with some more GnuCash-related queries.

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Introduction

GnuCash is a complex piece of software with many features and possibilities. It requires some learning and experience to work fluently and effectively with it.

To get you started, it comes with a good Concept Guide, which will introduce you to some basic accounting concepts and explain how GnuCash works with those principles.

A second helpful source of information is the GnuCash Manual, which is a reference to the menu options and dialogs in GnuCash.

These two documents cover only a part of what GnuCash can do. This is to be expected, as there are practically as many use cases as there are users of the tool. It would be impossible to contain all of these use cases in a manageable static document. Instead, this page and the ones linked to below will show ways to deal with specific problems. The examples and solutions provided reflect solutions found by users of GnuCash for real world scenarios.

If you know a solution to a particular problem while using GnuCash, you are welcome to add it to these pages as well.

Alternatively you can send it to the GnuCash user mailing list:

  1. You need to be subscribed before you can post to this list without moderation.
  2. Use a Subject in the lines of "GnuCash tip" or something similar, so it is easily recognized.
More details in Mailing Lists.

General Advice

Here is a section of helpful tips on the use and functionality of GnuCash.

Register Tips

Moving Multiple Transactions

There is no direct way to move a large number of transactions from one account to another in GnuCash.

If you are trying to move a small subset of an account's transactions, your best approach is to edit each transaction manually. You can speed this up somewhat by changing your register view to Transaction Journal mode, which will show all split lines at once. You may also find that copying the destination account and pasting it into the split line may help.

If you are trying move all (or MOST) of an account's transactions, you can get GnuCash to re-designate all your transactions at once by asking GnuCash to DELETE the account in question. For accounts that have transactions in them, GnuCash will ask whether you want to completely delete the transactions, or move them to a different account. Select the account you want all your transactions to go, and they will be moved. (To delete an account, open the Accounts window, select the account you want to delete, and click the Delete button).

Move Transactions to Another GnuCash File

Note: Ensure backups are current then work with a temporary copy of original files and confirm the changes before overwriting original files.

Although accounts can have the same name in different files the GUIDs are unique, so they are different accounts. Moving transactions is a manual process to export transactions by account to csv and import them into another file (see CSV Import/Export). The first page of the export wizard gives guidance on which settings to select.

It might be easier to export the account(s) containing more transactions than need to be moved then edit the csv file in a spreadsheet or text editor.

After confirming the transactions have been moved they can be deleted manually from the first file then confirmed again before overwriting original files.

Import transactions from another program

You should have read Help:Importing Transactions from Files.

See also
CSV Import/Export

Easy way to import a large amount of transactions from another your program (import from bank isn't covered by this tip)

If you use another program that may produce accounting data, tell your programmer to use QIF format to easy import into GnuCash. QIF format is simple and other programs can easy produce it. GnuCash's QIF importer is also easy to use and comes with self explaining wizard incorporated.

You can find QIF format description on Wikipedia or ask uncle Google.

--Provided by Pietro B.

Reporting Tips

As of GnuCash 2.6.15, the Tutorial & Concepts Guide contains a Reports chapter. Please refer to the Guide for details about the reports included with GnuCash.

A single report that shows summary amounts for multiple months for multiple accounts

To create a single report that shows summary amounts for multiple months for multiple accounts (for example, monthly totals for expense accounts over the course of a year), you can use the Transaction Report

  1. Choose your Accounts as the Accounts source in the Accounts tab, e.g. highlight "Expenses" and click "Select children"
  2. Set sortkeys in the Sorting tab: Primary key is Account Name, Primary subtotal is enabled. Secondary key is Date, secondary subtotal for date key is Monthly
  3. Enable Subtotal table in the Display tab

Quicken-like "Overview" of your accounts

Quicken provides an "overview" of your accounts -- a list of today's balances for checking, savings, credit cards, major assets and liabilities.

For something similar in GnuCash, run the Balance Sheet report, then go to Options to pick the accounts that you want to see in the overview. Then just leave that tab open, and every time you start GnuCash you'll have the overview. Click "reload" if you put in transactions and want to see how things have changed.

--Provided by Anthony Dardis

Alternatively just keep the "Accounts" tab open. It shows the current balances of all the accounts too, without having to run a report. However, I don't use the business functions, or scheduled transactions, so that might perhaps make a difference.

--Provided by Mike Leone


Displaying Split Account Details in Transaction Report

For a simple transaction like this:

debit credit
<trans-date> <ref-no> "Cheques Received"
"multiple payers" <income account> £157.60
<bank account> £157.60

then on a Transaction Report for the bank account the details appear pretty much as above.

For clarity of the accounts, you might enter transactions with multiple splits referring to the same account. For example, the above transaction might well be entered like this:

debit credit
<trans-date> <ref-no> "Cheques Received"
<first payer name> <income account> £100.00
<second payer name> <income account> £57.60
<bank account> £157.60

When this transaction is printed on the bank account's Transaction Report, then under "other account" it simply prints "split" instead of the account name.

To display the additional split detail, you need to set Display -> Detail Level = Multi-Line and then you need to turn on Display -> Account Name. Display -> Other Account Name is automatically disabled.

You can choose whether or not to turn off the full account name using Display -> Use Full Account Name?

--Provided by Derek Atkins (in response to Colin Scott)

Monthly Income/Expense Reports

You can export a GnuCash transaction report to HTML and then open the HTML file in Excel. You then have a ready-made data source from which you can create a pivot table with the transaction data grouped both by account and by period, with very few steps involved.

Two enhancements to the data to try are:
 (1) grouping the dates by month; and 
 (2) parsing multilevel account names into columns labeled "Account1", 
 "Account2", etc. using the ":" delimiter. 

This gives you a report that is very close to the monthly/quarterly/yearly income/expense report that MS Money and Quicken provide.

--Provided by Martin Cunningham on gnucash-users

Reporting in single file resp. in landscape format

Currently, this isn't supported. Via HTML export, however, both options are possible, with the help of htmldoc. Sample call for landscape in european A4 format, which also puts alle single html files into one compound pdf:

htmldoc  -t pdf14 --webpage --no-links --linkstyle plain --size 297x210mm --headfootsize 9
--header fff -f report.pdf *.html

Exporting a report to OpenOffice Calc

Sometimes a report needs to be laid out slightly differently than is possible in GnuCash. One way to do this is to export the report to OpenOffice Calc. GnuCash can't export directly into that format, but it can export to html. OpenOffice Calc can import such a html file. Here's what to do:

  1. Create your report in GnuCash
  2. With the report open in front of you, select File -> Export -> Export Report to save the report somewhere in html. Note: there is also a tool bar button that does exactly the same thing.
  3. Open OpenOffice Calc
  4. Select Insert -> Link to external data
  5. In the popup window, use the "..." button to find your exported report and below, choose "html all", then click ok.

This should load report in a Calc sheet. From here you can make tweaks as you like.

Printing a Rental Report

GnuCash does not have a special Rental Statement report. You need to decide if it is easier to do this in GnuCash or use the data from existing GnuCash reports to prepare the report in other software. This process describes preparing a rental statement in a spreadsheet for a cash accounting system assuming tenant pays into a bank account.

Example: A lease is commenced with T Smith on 1 Mar 2020 with rent of $250 per week payable each 4 weeks. Tenant must also pay water usage.

Bank transactions:

Bank Statement

Date          Description  Withdrawal   Deposit
 06/03/2020   T Smith                    750.00
 28/04/2020   T Smith                  2,000.00
 01/05/2020   WaterCo           35.00

In GnuCash the Water transaction is split into Expense:Water:Supply $20 and Expense:Water:Usage $15

Transaction Report

From 01/01/2020 to 15/05/2020

Date        Description Memo/Notes Transfer from/to                Debit    Credit

Assets:Current Assets:Checking Account
 06/03/2020 T Smith Rent           Income:Rent                      $750.00
 28/04/2020 T Smith Rent           Income:Rent                    $2,000.00
 01/05/2020 WaterCo                Split Transaction                          $35.00
Total                                                             $2,715.00

Expenses:Utilities:Water:Supply
 01/05/2020 WaterCo                Split Transaction                 $20.00
Total                                                                $20.00

Expenses:Utilities:Water:Usage
 01/05/2020 WaterCo     T Smith    Split Transaction                 $15.00
Total                                                                $15.00

Income:Rent
 06/03/2020 T Smith Rent           Assets:Current Assets:Checking            $750.00
 28/04/2020 T Smith Rent           Assets:Current Assets:Checking          $2,000.00
Total                                                                      $2,750.00

Grand Total                                                                    $0.00

Sample Spreadsheet Rental Statement:

Rent Statement - T Smith Unit 83/2849 High Street MyCity 9999
Payments are provisional upon tenant providing proof of payment

Date          Due        Payment    Balance Owing  Notes

 01/03/2020   1,000.00                   1,000.00
 06/03/2020                750.00          250.00
 03/04/2020   1,000.00                   1,250.00
 01/05/2020   1,000.00                   2,250.00
 28/04/2020              2,000.00          250.00
 01/05/2020      15.00                     265.00  Water usage

                      15 May 2020                       1 of 1

Process:

  1. Load bank transactions into GnuCash
  2. Print transaction report
  3. Open transaction report in spreadsheet
  4. Copy/Paste values transactions with tenants bills and payments. Take more than needed and delete extra lines.
  5. Append rent due transactions
  6. Copy Date, Due and Payment – use copy/paste special values if rent due calculated with formula
  7. Sort by Date Ascending and Payment descending
  8. Format amounts and ensure blank line after heading
  9. Calculate Balance Owing

Note: These steps can be done in a working sheet and saved to a statement template

--Content provided by flywire and transferred from FAQ

Stocks and Commodities

GnuCash on Holidays with your friend

Yes you can use GnuCash while on holidays with your friend.

Here's what you need:

- a computer + gnucash
- a freshly created gnucash file
- two people on holiday wanting to share costs.

Setup:

1. Account schema:
- Group Account "Cash", with one account named Me, and one named MyFriend
- Group Account "Expenses", with accounts like Lunch, Dinner, AfterEight, Hostels, TravelCosts etc.
- Group Account "Equity", with one account named Me, and one named MyFriend
2. Initial deposit:

Before taking off, both you and your friend empty your wallets, and count the money inside. No need to create a third wallet. Gnucash will take care of that. Now say your friend has 15.50 in her wallet. The booking in GnuCash is : Cash:YourFriend +15.50 Equity:YourFriend -15.50 See how easy that is?

3. After the holidays are over:

Again count the money inside both of your wallets, then create the exact opposite booking for the remainder in cash. So let us say you paid for everything and your friend paid nothing, then the booking after the holidays would be: Cash:YourFriend -15.50 Equity:YourFriend +15.50

So now you see that Equity is really what you put into the holidays. In your friend's case: -15.50 + 15.50 = 0 IMPORTANT: the Equity:Me and Equity:MyFriend show how much you put into the holiday each. Calculation to make 50-50: subtract the lower amount from the higher amount, then divide this subtracted amount by two. The result is what the owner of the lower amount should pay the owner of the higher amount. Example: You spent 150 dollars, your friend spend nada. Now 150-0=150 . 150 : 2 = 75. So your friend needs to pay you 75 dollars.

4. While on holidays, adding cash money:

From whatever funding you add to your wallet (Cash:Me) it is a deposit so you can book the same as with (2. Initial deposit)

5. While on holidays, spending money:

Now here is the interesting part. What was the money spent on? Whatever the answer, one thing is clear: Expenses:XXX go up, and some other account goes down.

5a. Option#1: While on holidays, your friend spends money to buy two beers, one for you, one for her (beer costs 2.20 each): This is where Expenses:XXX is debited (plus amount) and the Cash:YYY or Equity:ZZZ is credited (minus amount).

- With cash payment, it is Cash:YourFriend -4.40   Expenses:AfterEight +4.40
- However, if she paid with creditcard, it is Equity:YourFriend -4.40  Expenses:AfterEight +4.40

5b. Option#2: While on holidays, you spend money from your own cash on private affairs (private affairs cost 9.70). This is where Equity:Me is debited and Cash:Me is credited (less cash)

- With cash payment, it is Cash:Me -9.70  Equity:Me  +9.70
- If you used your own creditcard, it is Equity:Me -9.70  Equity:Me +9.70

This last line looks a little stupid for the laymen bookkeeping, so best use your own creditcard and not tell GnuCash about private affairs.

Enjoy ! Best regards, Ron

Tracking Reimbursable Expenses

It is not uncommon for people to incur expenses that are later reimbursed. Let's assume travel expenses are going to be reimbursed by your employer. In effect, you're making a loan to your employer, which creates an account receivable. This is an asset account, not an expense, so it is kept completely separate from your own expenses.

The simplest solution is to set up an account receivable, Assets:Accounts Receivable:Employer or similar. (If you don't have any other accounts receivable, you can skip the intermediate level and just create Assets:Due from Employer.) Then when you buy let's say airline tickets for an employer-required trip:

   Debit: Due from Employer
   Credit:(whichever credit card you used)

When your employer reimburses you, it's:

   Debit: Cash and Checking Accounts
   Credit:Due from Employer

Your employer probably has some sort of form that you fill out for reimbursement. While you could complicate the above scheme to generate reports for that form, in my opinion, it's less work overall to just write the expenses on your employer's form when they happen, and separately record them in GnuCash.

Where the simple scheme above will definitely help is at income tax time. You'll be able to show that X amount of money received from your employer was a non-taxable reimbursement for expenses, not a taxable payment of salary.

Original discussion at https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2022-November/103477.html

Getting started with GnuCash' business features

A prerequisite for using the Business features of GnuCash is that you have some business related accounts setup (Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable). The easiest way to do this is to create a new file and add Business Accounts in addition to the Common Accounts.

To get to your invoice you could take these steps:

  1. If you want GnuCash to deal with taxes properly you should first set up the proper tax tables for your country
    • Select Business-Tax Table Editor
    • Create a new tax table and set the proper tax amounts (for example, here in Belgium we have 21% VAT, so I have a tax table with one entry for 21%)
  2. Customer
    • Select Business->Customer->New Customer
    • Enter the required fields
    • Optionally select a tax table
    • Hit ok
  3. For your project, you can create a job
    • Select Business->Customer->New Job
    • Enter the information you need
    • Note: in 2.2.x you have to use the "Select" button to enter a customer, the text field is read-only
    • Hit ok
  4. Now you can create your invoice
    • Select Business->Customer->New Invoice
    • Select a customer and job and set the other fields to your likings
    • Hit OK
    • The invoice entry window should appear now as a new tab in the main window
    • Enter all the lines you wish to appear on your invoice in this window. The entry method is similar to the normal GnuCash register. Enter here for example your work, the items you sell to the customer and additional charges such as freight and insurance.
    • Note that GnuCash will calculate the taxes and totals automatically. You find them at the bottom of the window.
  5. When you are satisfied with the invoice entries, you have to post the invoice:
    • Select Edit->Post Invoice
    • Choose a post date and hit OK

That should be it. You can now print your invoice:

  • You can use either
    1. Reports->Business->Easy Invoice
    2. Reports->Business->Fancy Invoice
    3. Reports->Business->Printable Invoice
    I'm not exactly sure what the difference is. Just take the one you like best
  • Choose one of the three reports above
  • It will open with an empty window. Click on the options button (second button from the right in the toolbar) to configure your report.
  • The most important information is the invoice number (use the Select button)
  • Other than that, you can play a little with the layout of your invoice, by changing the other options.
  • When finished, hit ok and the invoice will display onscreen. You can choose to print it from there.

-- Provided by Geert Janssens

Using third party software for data exploration and visualization

You can use third party software like Excel, Tableau and Qlik Sense to explore and visualize GnuCash data through an ODBC connection as long as you save your data in sqlite format.

Here are instructions for Qlik Sense in Windows 10 (I chose Qlik Sense because it is a free download).

I wanted to visualize GnuCash transaction data without having to write templates and compile stuff, so I turned to QlikSense as they have a free personal edition (although similar steps would work for Tableau and other software that accepts ODBC connections). The trick is fairly simple:

  1. Download sqlite3 drivers (for windows: install the 64bit version from http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/)
  2. Export your GnuCash data as a sqlite file
  3. Configure the ODBC providers in your operating system to point to the Gnucash export
    1. Open Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Data sources (ODBC)
    2. Click on System DSN, then on Add
    3. Select Sqlite3 ODBC Driver, then click Create
    4. Provide a name for the connection (GnuCash)
    5. Under Database Name, click on Browse and select the file you exported from GnuCash
    6. Click Ok, then Ok again to close the previous dialog
  4. Open QlikSense, create a new app, load data via ODBC, select System DNS and the source you created earlier
  5. In the Data Editor, open or create a section and write some SQL. This is the trickiest part. See an example below.
  6. The results of the queries are automatically joined through columns of the same name; go into your app overview and start editing a sheet. The charts and tables you add will be tied together automatically!

Sample SQL Queries:

LIB CONNECT TO [GnuCash];

//*
[expense_accounts]:
SQL SELECT
	accounts.name AS parent_account,
    p_acc.name AS account,
    p_acc.hidden AS account_is_hidden,
    p_acc.placeholder AS account_is_placeholder
FROM accounts
INNER JOIN accounts AS p_acc ON p_acc.parent_guid = accounts.guid
	WHERE accounts.account_type = 'EXPENSE'
	AND accounts.hidden = 0
    AND p_acc.hidden = 0;
//*/

User G2010a has a repository with some more GnuCash-related queries.