Profit and Loss Statement for Closed Books
Mike or Penny Novack
stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com
Sun Mar 25 13:30:18 EDT 2012
Colin,
I think this is a misunderstanding?
I can well understand that you want BOTH a P&L report and a Balance
Sheet report. Gnucash let's you produce both of these and you can export
them and then use your favorite editor to make them print on the same
piece of paper. I do that for the organizations for which I am
treasurer. I don't expect guncash to do that for me directly and it
wouldn't be of real help because still would want to be able to edit
(add footnotes, control where page breaks occur for better readability,
etc. --- too much to expect gnucash to provide the full capability of a
good editor and that would be reinventing the wheel in any case).
If what you are saying is why doesn't gnucash provide the capability of
producing a combined report (two reports) from one command perhaps you
should look at this request another way. Just how many combinations are
you asking the developers to support? While P & L + Balance Sheet might
be a popular choice I can think of lots of others like:
P&L presented as numbers and as pie chart
Balance Sheet presented as numbers and as pie chart
Balance Sheet at the end of one period and Balance Sheet for a previous
period (or P& L for two consecutive periods)
If there are n reports then there a n(n-1) different combinations of two.
Michael
PS -- that third example is exactly what I would present to the board of
a non-profit for the annual report; this last year just ended compared
to the previous.
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