On 2023-07-19 07:00 PM, Simon Roberts wrote:
They raised a question; Is there a built in mechanism for "comparative"
reporting? For example, showing income from Jan 1 to date, alongside income
over the same months in the previous year?
In GnuCash 5.1 (not sure when feature first showed up, but I think it
was recent), you can do this for nice divisions such as year, half-year,
quarter, month, 2-weeks, and week.
Reports > Income & Expense > Income Statement (Multicolumn)
or
Reports > Assets & Liabilities > Balance Sheet (Multicolumn)
In Options > top tab General, choose Period Duration of how you want the
info split, then choose start and end dates appropriately.
For example, if you choose Half Year with Start Jan 1 2021 and End Dec
31 2023, it will show you columns for the six months ending on / as of date:
2021 June 30
2021 Dec 31
2022 June 30
2022 Dec 31
2023 June 30
2023 Dec 31 - though this one won't have much activity yet!
It is an excellent pair of reports.
You can of course paste them into a spreadsheet program and remove
whatever columns you don't find useful :)
If you want some odd period that doesn't line up with your fiscal year
like February 23 - April 5, then you'll have to run separate reports and
not use these nice ones.
Enjoy!
NoobAlice
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