Income and expenses
What came in and what went out, by category, merchant and period — with active and passive income kept apart.
Reports → Income & Expenses, and the profit and loss view alongside it.
The shape of it
- Per period — income against expenses as bars, month by month
- By category — a treemap of where spend went, and the same as a table
- Flow — a Sankey from income through to categories, which is the fastest way to see proportion
- By merchant — who took it, largest first
- Largest single expenses — the outliers, which are often the explanation for an odd month
- Heatmap — the headline figures across time, for spotting the month that broke the pattern
Active and passive income
Kept apart throughout, because the ratio is the interesting part. Active income is what you worked for; passive is what your assets produced. Watching the second grow against the first is the actual subject of the product for most people who use it seriously.
Averages
What a category usually costs, over a window you choose. The use is comparison rather than the number itself: this month against the way this category normally behaves, which is how you notice a bill that quietly went up.
Profit and loss
Income against expenses over a period, in the statement shape, for when you want it to read like accounts rather than like charts.
Why your own sum differs
If you export transactions and add them up you will get a different number. Splits, transfers and offsets are the reason, and the engine applying them is the point of asking it rather than the rows.