Reports

[Chris Dennis]

Phil Longstaff wrote:
> I've been thinking about how reports are structured and created.  I'm not an 
> accountant, but I have worked in a financial office.  The accounting package had 
> some interesting features to support report creation, and I'd like to see some 
> of the adopted for gnucash:
> 
> 1) Row structure was specified separately from column structure.  There were 
> two basic row structure domains: asset/balance sheet structures and 
> income/expense/profit structures.  The structure allows you to insert 
> headings/subtotals and accounts.
> 2) To create a report, you take a row structure and then specify columns for 
> different dates.
> 
> As an example, I can set up how I want my income statement structured as far 
> as what headings/accounts/subtotals there.  I can then set up a number of 
> columns (e.g. monthly, quarterly, ...).  I can think of reasons for setting up 
> a report row structure differently than just the normal account hierarchy (I 
> might want a report putting certain accounts in non-discretionary and 
> discretionary subtotals which I might not want to include in the hierarchy.
> 
> Does this fit into the (potential) new report structure of html with embedded 
> scheme?

Err, possibly.  At least I can see no reason why it wouldn't: obviously 
it would require a new set of functions relating to the rows and columns 
that you describe, and these could then be used within the eguile 
template-parsing system.

cheers

Chris

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