Bill, You might explore creating several 2 x 2 multi column reports with the individual reports embedded--one for each of your entities, with each row putting current and previous year in a column. Although the multi column report can be picky and slow at times, it might meet your needs in this case.
David T. On Jan 9, 2020, 10:45, at 10:45, Bill Dika <billd...@gmail.com> wrote: >Christopher Lam: > >I think this has been fixed in 3.8 > > >Not possible with this report I'm afraid. > > >Thanks for the clarifications. > >Adrienne Monteleone: > >There is a comparison transaction report floating around the list from >a >> couple of years ago. >> > >I think I have seen and tried it but could not get it to work. I am not >a >programmer, so am unable to fix it. > > >> I’ll try to dig it up and test it out again. > > >I'd appreciate knowing if you make any progress on it. > >Budget Report as it has YTD facilities, but you’d still have to run the >two >> periods separately and move to spreadsheet to see them together. > > >The traditional multi-column report might be of some utility > > >Good ideas, but going to a spreadsheet is not an option. I am doing >monthly >financial statements for 5 entities and need a quick ad hoc comparison >of >how each entity is doing from month to month and YTD this year compared >to >YTD last year and full year this year compared to full year last year. >Choosing comparison start and end dates for this year and last year for >the >report would be ideal and give me the flexibility that I am looking >for. > >Michael D Novack: > > >> run the report ten times (once for each year) and export/print. >> > >This is way too time consuming. > >Thanks to all. > >Bill Dika CPA,CA Retired > >On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:57 AM Michael or Penny Novack < >stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> On 1/6/2020 8:16 PM, Bill Dika wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> If you have NO "presentation requirements" just want to see the >> data/comparison, run the report ten times (once for each year) and >> export/print. Run the eleven Balance sheets and do the same. Then in >each >> case, you lay one sheet of paper next to the other (for that year's >> comparison) and then set aside the oldest, slide sheets over, and lay >in >> place the next year's. >> >> >> Michael D Novack >> >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >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.
