Chris, I have the multicolumn report up and running in V3.2. In addition to adding your file I also had to incorporate it in the CMakeLists.txt in ~/gnucash/report/standard-reports to have it available from the menu. Initially I will just comment on the presentation, as I don't have a testfile setup with which I can check the numbers out yet.
I need to emphasize that these are my personal preferences for clarity of presentation and not any accounting profession standard as such. IAS-1 (https://www.iasplus.com/en/standards/ias/ias1) the IFRS standard does not specify any particular layout and format and mainly concentrates on what content has to be presented in the four standard financial statements (some individual jurisdictions may be more prescriptive): Statement of financial position (balance sheet); Statement of profit and loss and other comprehensive income; Statement of cash flows; Statement of changes in equity. One of the problems of a multicolumn report is in representing an account heirarchy which is more than 2 to 3 levels deep as I'm sure you have already discovered. You run out of ways of clearly delineating the totals at each level fairly quickly. This is much easier when you can have a column at each level of the heirarchy. 1. I would put the date headings one line up from the Asset Bold heading. 2. i wouldn't use double lines under sub-totals within the major Asset, Liability and Equity groups but would just use a single line under them and reserve the double underline for the total in each of those major sections, 3. With the Totals, I would not incorporate the full account heirarchy in the heading, but just the parent account that the subtotal is for. Then indenting of the account heirarchy can then indicate the heirarchy level and what are totals at that level. You could perhaps augment this by using decreasing font sixes as the heirarchy level increases. 4. If it is possible, I would have the total of any transactions direct to the parent account displayed in the same manner as any of its child accounts and balances so that the total displayed for the parent is the balance of the direct transactions + any child account totals. If no direct transactions, drop this as a line item. Since GnuCash does allow this 5. Also consider totalling up rather than down (avoids having to repeat the Level Heading with a Total label. 6. There is no need for a separate Net Worth item as that is what Equity is. I have attached a LibreOffice document illustrating what I mean by the above in case it is not clear. I have illustrated a case where Petty Cash is a parent account which has transactions into it as well as having a child account (Ignore any table lines). MultiColumnBalSheetLayoutSuggestions.odt <http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/file/t375329/MultiColumnBalSheetLayoutSuggestions.odt> Hope this helps with some ideas. Cheers David ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
