michael d novack Thanks for the reply. I agree with everything you said but I am not looking for presentation Financial Statements. I am looking to make quick year to year comparisons with the reporting facility in Gnucash. Having ten years of financial data, I would like to make quick comparisons of YTD (year to date) of this year with last year (for various years), without exporting and massaging the presentation.
But I think Adrien is on to something (see below). adrien monteleone Thanks for the replies. the new (experimental) multi-column Income Statement in v3.8. That will get > your two periods lined up neatly. This is what I am looking for. Thank you. The "Options" dialog is a little off (to get an income comparison of the two years being January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019, I must put in a start date of January 1, 2018 (intuitive) but to get the correct income for 2019 I need to put in an end date of January 1, 2020 (not intuitive to me)). I do not need a variance column. Also, I am not sure how to get a YTD (year to date) comparison of this year to YTD for the same period last year (if you know how to get this from this dialog, I would be appreciate hearing it). In any case I now have something to work with and look forward to this coming out of experimental status. Thanks to all. Bill Dika On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:46 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 1/5/2020 1:46 PM, Bill Dika wrote: > > What would it cost for someone to create a comparative income statement > report comparing this period to the corresponding period last year? > > > > I am willing to pay if it is not too much. The report could be included > in Gnucash and released under the GPL v3 or later. > > If this is not the correct list to ask for this, please direct me to > where I might find someone willing to prepare this. > > Thanks. > > > > Bill Dika > > _______________________________________________ > > > It is the right place to ask, but let me first give the advice I > received when I first took over as treasurer for a 501(c)3 << it is > NORMAL for the "Statement of Revenue and Expenses"* of a non-profit to > be presented that way, at least the annual one >> > > At the time a recently retired very senior systems analyst, able to at > least read LISP (scheme is a LISP dialect) I asked the lawyer/accountant > if I should code those special reports. He said "Don't bother Mike. Just > run the raw reports, export them, and then bring that data in under > control of your favorite full power editor. It's what any experienced > accountant would choose to do. That's because you will STILL have > editing to do" << add fixed text, add notations, deal with accounts not > entirely corresponding in the two periods, deal with "pretty printing", > etc. >> In other words, because STILL going to be doing editing, might > as well do that in one place, and where you have the power of a real > editor. > > Try looking at the annual statements of a non-profit or two and you will > quickly see that this is what must have been done. That the report > presented matches everything else (fonts, etc.) and not the direct > output of some accounting software. > > Understand? I am the sort of person who could have done this coding, > but following this advice chose not to., > > Michael D Novack > > * The "Income Statement" report -- that's what a non-profit calls the > "Profit and Loss" statement (in gnucash, "Income Statement". But the > same in parallel is wanted for the Balance Statement. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
