I think I'll get the draft multicolumn report into v3.6 due approximately end of June. No guarantees it's bugfree (especially involving multiple currencies/stocks) but at least it'll have increased exposure, and I'm sure many users will find them useful. Multi-date balance-sheets aim to report on realized-gains, unrealized-gains & retained-earnings when valuing currencies/stocks to report-currency. Multi-period profit-and-loss reports hopelessly does not even try to figure out these amounts when converting to report-currency across periods. But for single-currency books, or unconverted currencies, they work fairly well. Bug reports are welcome, but not guaranteed to be fixable unless they are accompanied by very clear instructions how these valuations should be calculated.
On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 00:46, Stephen C. Camidge <scami...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Sounds like you wrote the program - I am new to this and do not know the > history. > > As a recently retired accountant, I am use GNU Cash as a replacement for > Quickbooks. I like what I see, but would like the reporting capabilities of > Quickbooks where possible. To me, monthly P&L and comparative P&L to prior > year are very useful. I would never tell you not to implement it. I would > rather request it. > > Yes, I now see that I can export to a spreadsheet and modify it, but I do > not think I should have to. The program should do it for me. My view may > not match that of other people, so will use the workaround. > > Thank you very much for the comments and advice (to all) and for the > program! > > -- > Stephen C. Camidge scami...@fastmail.fm (519) 363-3912 > > On Wed, May 8, 2019, at 8:59 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > On 5/7/2019 11:22 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > > > > Comparative-period P&L is not yet implemented in GnuCash. (but as > Chris Lamm noted, he has a testing version of the report that *might* fit > your needs - if you can try it, please do so) > > > > One reason it has not been implemented is that when I began (2007) using > > gnucash for organizational accounting I was advised not to bother. A > > non-profit, for annual reports, always shows this year vs last year > > Balance Sheet and Statement of Revenues and Expenses (what a non-profit > > calls P&L). As a recently retired senior analyst, decades > > designing/writing financial systems software, and able to at least read > > LISP, I could presumably have managed the scheme for these special > > reports. And if I wrote them, I would have shared them. > > > > The lawyer/accountant who said "do it outside of gnucash with a full > > power editor" was persuasive, correct that there would STILL be a lot of > > editing remaining to be done, so better to do all editing at one time > > with one tool designed for the purpose. > > > > Michael D Novack, FLMI > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
