Derek and Liz give the correct advice to keep separate books, but to
your particular question of getting a filtered P&L—"you can't."
You can however, get really close to one using the Transaction Report
and its more robust filtering abilities. Then export that to a
spreadsheet and fill in your formulas for totaling the various sections.
Regards,
Adrien
On 1/22/22 12:34 PM, Louise wrote:
I'm trying to set up a sort of classes in Gnucash like Quickbooks. I like
to keep one file with multiple bank accounts and businesses together. So,
I wanted to use @bookkeeping, @rental and @personal etc in the description
field to be able to pull a P&L and filter only to show transactions
with @bookkeeping or @rental in the description. Then I would be able to
separate a P&L for each rental or business.
My issue is that I'm trying to use Options > Entries > Closing Entries
Pattern to filter a P&L. When I put @bookeeping in the field it is showing
me exactly the opposite. I get totals of everything that does NOT
have @bookeeping in the description field. I'm having a hard time finding
any documentation on how to use the closing entries pattern to help filter
a report. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way? Any help is
appreciated!
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