Profit and Loss Statement for Closed Books

[Derek Atkins]

"Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:

>> Fortunately the P&L has an option to include/exclude the "Closing 
>> Entry"; so that you don't need to worry having a day that's between 
>> years.
>
> Hmmmm.  It does?  That's useful!
>
> Using Gnucash 2.4.6 (the latest version for PortableApps, which is a *much* simpler and more rational installation than the official Windows release!) there is an options tab "Entries", for which the somewhat inscrutable options are:
>
>         Closing Entries Pattern  <enter pattern>
>         <checkbox> Closing Entries pattern is case-sensitive
>         <checkbox> Closing Entries pattern is regular expression

The defaults here should work, because they match the default closing
transaction operations.

> In any case, the P&L report was changed several releases ago and no
> longer serves my particular purpose, so I am obliged to rely on
> personalised reports based on a much earlier version.

Oh?  In what way was it changed?  And how does it no longer serve your
purpose?

> Colin

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-derek

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