I appreciate all the responses. The general consensus is to keep the existing options and build more specific reports on top of it's capabilities.
From the comments, it appears a coder could hide many of the options in order to produce a targeted report that an end-user would find easier to use and configure. --Steve On 1/9/19 1:50 PM, David Cousens wrote: > Steve, > > I would like to add to Adrien's concerns. The reports are for more than an > accountant or a bookkeeper. Many people using GnuCash are managing personal > finances, investments, not for profits, small businesses etc and while they > may need the basic standard accounting reports (balance sheet, income > statement, transaction, cash flow etc.), they also need to have reports > which give them information which is more related to managing those > activities and sometimes they also need to dig deeper into the information. > > We need to remember that the options that are there have grown out of user > requests for reports outside the basic reports and/or the need for more or > different information. > > An additional concern is perhaps that many users have produced customized > reports based on the standardized reports. I don't know to what extent these > are standalone, but if changes in the underlying report affect the derived > reports then we will hear screams and gnashing of teeth from the user base. > > GnuCash is also widely used in many jurisdictions and reporting requirements > and standards and practice can vary in more than just language and date > formats. Fortunately there is a strong international push for financial > reporting standards (IFRS) led by the IASB. The FASB in the US is moving the > GAAP towards agreement/compliance with the IFRS, and is a major participant > in the IASB, but has not yet adopted the IFRS as the basis of its internal > standards. Many European countries and others adopt the IFRS standards with > local variation on top to meet legislative requirements in corporate law, > consumer legislation etc as well as local practices. > https://www.ifrs.org/use-around-the-world/use-of-ifrs-standards-by-jurisdiction/#analysis > has a comlete breakdown of the current position. > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > 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 > -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
