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Question about income/expense reports
Hi! As an ex-Quicken user (yea!) I find myself needing to replicate the functionality of its "detailed category" report. The closest Moneydance equivalent seems to be the "detailed income/expense" report but it doesn't show which account recorded the transaction. What I specifically rely on is the ability to see date, account, category, memo, and amount in a single report. Is there any way to accomplish this in Moneydance? Thanks!
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Inappropriate?I dont think the reports yet have this level of detail in them, but you might want to try using a search, and then printing that.1 Comment
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Ash, All the necessary info/data is there, it just needs to be displayed either as standard or options. I wish you or Sean, would use MD for a business, and see what info / reports are needed. -
Inappropriate?Hmm, the search function doesn't really do it either as I can't search based on categories. Let alone, multiple categories and accounts at the same time.
I'd like to put in an official enhancement request for more comprehensive searching and report generation. At least comparable to the Mac version of Quicken.
On one hand, Moneydance is so much more stable than Quicken I could never go back. On the other hand, I really rely on those more powerful reports to manage our overly complicated household finances. :P What would be even more awesome would be a generic report building tool that could be used to design my own reports and layouts.3 Comments Add a comment
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Hear hear! I agree with everything wierzbowski said about reports. It's currently the weakest area in Moneydance, an otherwise FINE product. I just spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to figure out how to get MD to show the taxable part of my salary (Gross Pay - Health/Dental premiums - Healthcare FSA contribution - Contributions to workplace retirement savings). Couldn't do it! Had to run three separate reports and then hand-transcribe the results to a spreadsheet for the final arithmetic. A generic report-builder tool would SOLVE this problem.
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The search function (which when I 1st saw it just blew me away), I realized that I had to use MD instead of my old Quicken (I have over 40,000 transactions and any search is immediate) of course everything is in memory !! And easy goto transaction -- NEAT -- But WHY WHY show both sides of ONE transaction as two transactions? That's one (and only one reason) why MD wouldn't be approved by accountants as secure software.. A transaction between an asset/liab acct and an income/expense category SHOULD ONLY be modified from the originating account (ie asset or liab) and as such income/expense detail should only be displayed accumulated etc with its originating account. I guess more clearly stated, in other accounting systems - income and expense transactions can ONLY be made via an asset or liab account. Plus income / expense categories are defined differently from asset / liability accounts since they are TEMPORARY category/accounts and go away after whatever period is defined (normally fiscal year but conceptually any period. Well something like that - I TOO think that the search function WOULD have worked but for showing bothe sides of the transaction - thus the report is ALWAYS ZERO !!! unless there is some error !! Oh Well !!
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YES! I switched from Quicken but find MD's reports incredibly cumbersome: no monthly comparisons, lack of detail, inability to customize/modify, inability to view a report and "jump" to a corresponding transaction. It's so time consuming to organize the info I want; I'm seriously considering going back to Quicken. Sigh.
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Inappropriate?I feel like I have/had posted about this as ad infinitem on the old forum: http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl referencing the basic accounting function of the OLD Dos quicken and the reporting that was available even back then in the dark ages !!
here is part of one part that give links to some others - that might be informative and maybe if there is enuf of us, Sean will take a look at the basic accounting / reporting needs. Based upon 20 years of IBM mainframe systems/programing etc, 15 yrs of mid range consulting - I believe that Sean can readily make the necessary changes, since he's already got a fantastic open design. I believe he just doesn't "see" our need and why those capabilities were available in all the old versions of quicken.
From this post: http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?n...
Sorry to see you go, every experience user would help, as I believe with just a modicum of accounting common sense MD would blow quicken/quickbooks away at least in the basic accounting (not investment) functions . If you missed my postings before - I reference some of the basic functions in posts:
http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?n...
http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?n...
and lets not forget this thread:
http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?n...
Come back AND help with constructive suggestions.
I’m frustrated
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Actually it's 22,000 trans - the <txnid>44442 is actually double for each side </txnid>
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Inappropriate?I too would like to see improved reporting. That is my biggest "pain point" with Moneydance at the moment. -
Inappropriate?If it helps, that's the one feature I need, especially for next years tax reporting. I hope it's in the 2009 version or an updated version. It is a great product, so keep it up Moneydance!
I’m very hopeful
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Inappropriate?I have to agree with a lot of the previous comments. I moved my data over to Moneydance a few weeks ago and the more I use it, the more I like it. It really is a great product... BUT the range of reports available is pretty basic. I'm almost certainly going to have to export my data to a spreadsheet to achieve my end-of-year reporting requirements.
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Inappropriate?I've been using MD for about six months and like it (had been using MS Money) ... except for the lack of decent reports. Right now I'd love to see a report showing income and expense categories down the left, and months across the top.
Nothing in MD lets me summarize by category and month.
And the exporting functions are weak because they sometimes put one transaction on two lines, which is a no-no if you want to manipulate a data file. -
Inappropriate?Hey Doug, you might want to try Rolf's Detailed Budget extension (http://getsatisfaction.com/theinfinit...). With it, you can generate a chart that shows income and expense categories down the left, and months across the top (if you select subtotal by month). The chart also includes three additional columns on the right side, for Total Budgeted, Total Actual, and Total Difference. I'm really not a fan of the last three columns, but it's better than nothing.
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Inappropriate?As a recent convert from Quicken to Moneydance I'd like to add my voice to those requesting a categories report with the option of selecting which accounts to include.
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Inappropriate?In reference to Katahdin's note about how accounts and categories are not the same thing and my own notice of what happens when a transaction's category has the same name as the account the transaction is in (see my bug post), I think it may be a basic MD design flaw that will continue to cause problems as long as it exists.
I’m anxious
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I've been somewhat astounded that there hasn't been more response regarding the basic standard accounting theory flaws.
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Inappropriate?bump -- aGAIN2 Comments Add a comment
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and again - lets get some support here !!
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and again... ;=}
