profit and loss report

[David T.]

Thanks, Derek. I have altered the description for the Income Statement report on the wiki to include this historical information.


David



________________________________
 From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Noah Ulrich <noahulric at gmail.com>; Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net>; "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: profit and loss report
 
"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> @Noah: 
> Maf. is right; the P&L was renamed Income Statement. Do you find this
> report, and does it meet your needs?
>
> @Others: Does anyone know when the P&L was renamed, and can anyone
> explain the reasoning behind the change? I tried searching the release
> news, but didn't find the report renaming mentioned anywhere in
> those... I would add this information to the Wiki if I had it.

It was renamed sometime early in the 2.x series -- I don't recall when
exactly, but it was from a major set of reports rewriting that happened
around that time to make it more "accounting compliant".  Part of that
rewrite was renaming the old 1.x P&L to Income Statement.  Of course
this confused many users, to this day, so sometime in the 2.4.x series I
re-added the P&L as an alternate name to the Income Statement.  It's
exactly the same report, just a different name.

> David

-derek

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