Year end reports

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

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Terry Therneau <therneau at mayo.edu> writes:

> Derek,
>    I asked where I could get a sum of all expenses by category/subcategory, and 
> you answered 
>     >  Income Statement (used to be called the Profit and Loss report)
>
> I've looked here, and I don't see anything except some bar and pie charts. These 
> are not useful objects to me.  Am I missing something?

Yes... You missed the "Income Statement".

> BTW, using version 1.8 on Ubuntu 6.  (And not eager to try and upgrade, given 
> the large number of libraries affected).

Oh, on 1.8 it's called "Profit and Loss".

>   As to exporting data your answer was
>     > The transaction report and parsing the HTML.
>
> I was hoping for something simple instead of days of work.  I don't parse html 
> or xml for a living, and we are talking a large learning curve.  
>   Why doesn't simple cut/paste work on the text object I see?

Why don't I have a million dollars?  It's just the way it is.
As for parsing HTML/XML for a living, you may not, but something
like OOo or Excel or Gnumeric certainly could.

>   	Terry T.

-derek

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