Hi David: You might explore creating several 2 x 2 multi column reports with the > individual reports embedded
Thanks. I think I already tried that but its been a while so, I think I'll try again. Bill On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 1:02 AM D <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. > < > br> > David T. > On Jan 9, 2020, 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.
