Profit and Loss Statement for Closed Books << offline>>

[Colin Scott]

> Well I am running a rather old version so it's not THAT. I would 
> certainly have noticed the existence any such report that combined 
> a P & L with a Balance Sheet as of the end date of the P & L.

There undoubtedly *was* such a report, as my custom reports are based upon it.  I reported the change in bugzilla as bug 643406, though it is possible the report was not quite correct in referring back to version 2.3.9 - I think I may have intended 2.2.9.  Certainly I referred back to 2.2.9 when making my report of bug 643383 on the previous day!   (I have re-read that latter report, and find that my Comment #2 is as relevant today as it was then, to this and to several other issues of design, consistency and change on which I have commented in here since then.)

> Those are actually very different sorts of reports in the sense 
> ...
> starting right after a close date).

I have already indicated my acceptance of this point.  However, neither your comments nor my acceptance of them excuse the failure of basic programming standards represented by a program that permits the user to set options the program will not or cannot honour.

> However, if you care to supply a version number for the version you 
> believe contained this report we can have a look.

As above, I believe 2.2.9 for Windows.   For what it is worth, I started using gnucash in early 2009, so it will certainly have been in whatever was the current stable Windows release at that time.

> PS -- just to confirm we are on the same wavelength -- gnucash 
> calls the P & L report "Income Statement".

Indeed - and the report I initially used was called "Income Statement" (which, I recall, I had trouble finding at the time because the title was somewhat unexpected!  :-)


Colin

-------- Original Message --------

*Subject:* Re: Profit and Loss Statement for Closed Books << offline>>
*From:* Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com>
*To:* gnucash at double-bars.net
*Date:* Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:54:38 -0500

Colin Scott wrote:

>>I think this is a misunderstanding?
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think so.  So far as I remember, a few releases and a couple of years ago, there was a report that provided all the info I needed in one go.  
>
Well I am running a rather old version so it's not THAT. I would 
certainly have noticed the existence any such report that combined a P & 
L with a Balance Sheet as of the end date of the P & L.

Those are actually very different sorts of reports in the sense that one 
(the P & L) is in effect reporting on the totals of transactions (for 
the temporary "income" and "expense" accounts) during a time interval 
while the other is reporting the totals of  the permanent accounts as of 
a specified date. They perhaps don't look different to you because of  
"close the books" but gnucash will run a P & L for any interval you 
specify (not necessarily starting right after a close date).

However, if you care to supply a version number for the version you 
believe contained this report we can have a look.

Michael

PS -- just to confirm we are on the same wavelength -- gnucash calls the 
P & L report "Income Statement".  Please note that not crazy that it 
does that. While this is a commonly used report by custom the name 
associated with it depends upon the type of entity for which the books 
are kept (a FOR PROFIT BUSINESS calls it "Profit and Loss").