Rick,

Try the Transaction Report. It has the ability to sort by Month.

Run the report for just one expense account to start with to get a handle on 
how the report options work. Then you can make it more complicated with more 
accounts if needed later.

If your split memos have enough detail, they will show you specific items 
purchased, and you can even filter on that field, for example, to see only 
transactions where you purchased a particular type of item like clothing or 
music even if you don’t have a separate expense account for them.

It is for this reason I recommend to include as much detail as possible when 
entering transactions. You’ll never remember it months or years later, and if 
you don’t enter it, there likely isn’t a way to recover it if you do want or 
need it. Spending habit analysis is a good example use case for more detail. I 
enter all of my receipts line by line in my transactions with item detail 
descriptions, including separate lines for sales tax. (less trouble than trying 
to allocate tax to each different expense account)

Another tip for more info is to turn on Double Line mode. It will expose a Note 
field under the description line. That can be used for transaction-wide purpose 
or other info and you can still put detailed purpose or item info in the 
individual memos.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 10:22 AM, Rick Turman via gnucash-user 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Is there a report, or a way, that list items by month. i.e. If I wanted to 
> look at a breakdown of my expenses by the month is there a way to do that? 
> I'd like to look at numbers and not a graph or pie chart.Thanks,Rick


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