Income and Expense Report

[Oda Stout]

  Thank you.  I was sorry  that your answer to my question was NO.  An 
example of the Actual Income and Expense Report that I was referring to 
is attached.  I was able to generate this report easily with my old 
Parsons MoneyCounts Software without using any editors.  Unfortunately, 
my MoneyCounts software will not work with Windows 7.   Parsons 
MoneyCounts software is a great program, and GnuCash is the closest 
software that I can find that is similar to it.   Please consider 
including the attached report in future versions of GnuCash.
Thanks again.
Oda

On 10/5/2010 10:57 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
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