Reports

[Derek Atkins]

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"Alan" <awfraser at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> Thanks for your quick response.  I'll have to see if I can create the Custom
> report you are talking about, but being new to gnucash (no pun) it may take
> me a little time.  What is the most up to date source of reference material
> for the program?  
> Thanks again.
> Alan

There's the wiki, the documentation, and of course the source code.  But
in this case all you need to do is open a multi-column report, set the
number of columns (to 2), and then on each column open the P&L report
and set the proer report options for each instance of the P&L report.

-derek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
> Sent: 24 August 2011 14:21
> To: Alan
> Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Reports
>
> "Alan" <awfraser at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Maybe I just haven't found it yet, but is there a way of producing a
> report
>> in multicolumns showing comparable data side by side. For example a P&L
>> account, say, for a year, showing each of the twelve months separately, or
>> P&Ls for a series of successive years to enable comparison.
>
> Sorry, at this point there is no such report.  You could create a Custom
> multi-column report and have those P&L reports in different columns.
> But it's not the same result as a single P&L with multiple time columns.
>
>> Alan Fraser
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> -derek

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