diff --git a/gnucash/report/report-system/report-system.scm b/gnucash/report/report-system/report-system.scm
index ed4f2a0d8f..8fd439e883 100644
--- a/gnucash/report/report-system/report-system.scm
+++ b/gnucash/report/report-system/report-system.scm
@@ -686,6 +686,7 @@
 (export gnc:account-get-type-string-plural)
 (export gnc:accounts-get-commodities)
 (export gnc:get-current-account-tree-depth)
+(export gnc:accounts-and-all-descendants)
 (export gnc:acccounts-get-all-subaccounts)
 (export gnc:make-stats-collector)       ;deprecated
 (export gnc:make-drcr-collector)        ;deprecated
diff --git a/gnucash/report/report-system/report-utilities.scm b/gnucash/report/report-system/report-utilities.scm
index bb886ac274..3d5e140b84 100644
--- a/gnucash/report/report-system/report-utilities.scm
+++ b/gnucash/report/report-system/report-utilities.scm
@@ -149,6 +149,15 @@ construct gnc:make-gnc-monetary and use gnc:monetary->string instead.")
   (append-map gnc-account-get-descendants-sorted
               accountlist))
 
+;; Return accountslist *and* their descendant accounts
+(define (gnc:accounts-and-all-descendants accountslist)
+  (sort-and-delete-duplicates
+   (append accountslist
+           (gnc:acccounts-get-all-subaccounts accountslist))
+   (lambda (a b)
+     (string<? (gnc-account-get-full-name a) (gnc-account-get-full-name b)))
+   equal?))
+
 ;;; Here's a statistics collector...  Collects max, min, total, and makes
 ;;; it easy to get at the mean.
 
diff --git a/gnucash/report/report-system/test/test-report-utilities.scm b/gnucash/report/report-system/test/test-report-utilities.scm
index cf35447198..fd62cc8fc5 100644
--- a/gnucash/report/report-system/test/test-report-utilities.scm
+++ b/gnucash/report/report-system/test/test-report-utilities.scm
@@ -511,6 +511,15 @@
        (list (account-lookup "Expenses")
              (account-lookup "GBP Bank"))))
 
+    (test-equal "gnc:accounts-and-all-descendants"
+      (list (account-lookup "GBP Bank")
+            (account-lookup "GBP Savings")
+            (account-lookup "Expenses")
+            (account-lookup "Fuel"))
+      (gnc:accounts-and-all-descendants
+       (list (account-lookup "Expenses")
+             (account-lookup "GBP Bank"))))
+
     (teardown)))
 
 (define (test-monetary-adders)