[GNC-dev] Reports -- Cleanup

[Stephen M. Butler]

I appreciate all the responses.  The general consensus is to keep the
existing options and build more specific reports on top of it's
capabilities.

>From the comments, it appears a coder could hide many of the options in
order to produce a targeted report that an end-user would find easier to
use and configure.

--Steve

On 1/9/19 1:50 PM, David Cousens wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I would like to add to Adrien's concerns. The reports are for more than an
> accountant or a bookkeeper. Many people using GnuCash are managing personal
> finances, investments, not for profits, small businesses etc and while they
> may need the basic standard accounting reports (balance sheet, income 
> statement, transaction, cash flow etc.), they also need to have reports
> which give them information which is more related to managing those
> activities and sometimes they also need to dig deeper into the information.
>
> We need to remember that the options that are there have grown out of user
> requests for reports outside the basic reports and/or the need for more or
> different information.
>
> An additional concern is perhaps that many users have produced customized
> reports based on the standardized reports. I don't know to what extent these
> are standalone, but if changes in the underlying report affect the derived
> reports then we will hear screams and gnashing of teeth from the user base.
>
> GnuCash is also widely used in many jurisdictions and reporting requirements
> and standards and practice can vary in more than just language and date
> formats. Fortunately there is a strong international push for financial
> reporting standards (IFRS) led by the IASB. The FASB in the US is moving the
> GAAP towards agreement/compliance with the IFRS, and is a major participant
> in the IASB, but has not yet adopted the IFRS as the basis of its internal
> standards. Many European countries and others adopt the IFRS standards with
> local variation on top to meet legislative requirements in corporate law,
> consumer legislation etc as well as local practices.
> https://www.ifrs.org/use-around-the-world/use-of-ifrs-standards-by-jurisdiction/#analysis
> has a comlete breakdown of the current position.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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