Income and Expense Report

[Mike or Penny Novack]

>
> I don't use a budget, but I would like to be able to view all of my 
> actual income and expenses for each month for the entire year, 
> starting with January.  Is there a way to do this?  Thanks.
>
> Oda

Depends on what you mean.

Are you asking:

a) Can I produce an "Income Statement*" report for any month I wish? 
(and so for each month)
    The answer to that is yes. You simply set the start and stop date 
for each report via report options. You would run this report each month.

b) Is GnuCash going to take all of these reports and edit the output 
into some single very wide report for me?
    The answer to that is no. You can of course export the monthly 
reports and then use whatever editor you like to arrange the reports 
into a single report. For example, for one of the non-profits whose 
books are kept on GnuCash our "finished product" report consists of two 
consecutive annual reports of this type (plus the corresponding balance 
sheet reports for end of each year. When I asked the accountant whether 
he wanted me to write a custom report within GnuCash to do this 
combining (I used to design financial software for a living) he said 
"don't be silly -- I'll use my favorite editor for that".

    The point here is there are an awful lot of possibilities how people 
might want or need their "finished product" reports composed and 
formatted. No point to have  a full featured editor created to be used 
for JUST for GnuCash reports when there are already so many editors out 
there.

Michael

* That's the name GnuCash uses for the "Profit and Loss" report aka 
"Revenue Statement" aka ............  (the report that shows all income 
and all expenses for some time period.