how to see my monthly income/expences?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Janis Prodnieks wrote:

>Hi!
>I tried to read the help and search the internet about this but
>without good luck. What I want to do is:
>1. Create custom report or something that will show me my income and
>expences on a monthly basis. Like The current Reports -> Income &
>Expense -> Cash Flow. Just with specific month not whole year.
>2. To see the average income or expenses of certain accounts for
>certain period. 
>Also, a bit confusing is that if I'm writting to the list without
>being subscribed to it how will I get the answer?
>Regards,
>Janis
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You will see the answer because the protocol for this list is to use 
"reply all".

1) You decide the starting and ending dates for the report. The default 
is YTD but you do not have to accept that and can set any starting and 
ending date that you wish. Edit=>Options and you can change all sorts of 
things about the reports on the fly.

2) Unclear what you mean by that though I suspect I know what you meant. 
But this is perhaps a good time to put out a reminder that the standard 
reports are just the STARTING POINT (the raw data) from which an 
accountant might create either finished products or derivative reports.

    OK, let's say that you have run an "Income Statement" for the time 
period of the last seven months. This aren't the numbers you wish to see 
but instead you want to see the average monthly amounts. Well seven 
months, divide each and every one of them by seven and change to title 
of the report. Note that in its simplest form this wouldn't be hard to 
create as a "custom report" (but would get MUCH more complicated adding 
what would be necessary to prevent being misuse, especially if having to 
allow for "fiscal months" not coinciding with calendar months). THAT is 
why almost any accountant would say "give me the raw report and I'll 
give you back the finished version" (eyeball confirm that the report WAS 
for an integral number of months and retype with all amounts divided by 
that number).

Michael

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