Monthly Income/Expense Reports

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Apr 5 12:02:55 EDT 2011


Tony <penury at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:36:50 -0400, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> What's wrong with the Income Statement and Balance Sheet reports that
>> already exist within Gnucash (except for the fact that you can only run
>> them on a per-day basis and not on a microsecond basis)?
>
> Without reviewing the prior discussion, I think I recall this being about
> comparative, side-by-side statements for some relevant period (mostly
> likely, monthly).
>
> Even if it wasn't though (and the reason I jumped in on this), is that I
> think this kind of report (a side-by-side income statement) is one of the
> biggest value-adds to an accounting process for a personal user.  It's
> essentially the basis for any financial analysis one would like to do
> (presumably in a spreadsheet, but by hand as well), and I'd find it
> difficult to understand my own changing economic circumstances without this
> sort of comparative analysis.
>
> In my perfect world, such a report would include configurable end-of-period
> balance sheet items in the same column as the income statement data, and
> the whole thing would automatically drop into CSV or some suitable
> spreadsheet format.
>
> I recognize that there is limited appetite for report building in the
> GnuCash developer group, so this is really just a comment.

Patches and new reports are always welcome.

I would love to see someone donate a "comparative report".

> Thanks, though, for a great application.

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-derek

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