Income and Expense Report

[Anthony Dardis]

That's pretty much what the Budget report does show. I'm puzzled about  
your question about the date range: whenever I run this on my system, I  
get January to December, not, say, October to September (as I gather you  
are seeing). I don't know what explains the difference.




On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:22:10 -0400, Oda Stout <stouto at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>   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.