Profit and Loss Statement for Closed Books

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Colin,

I think this is a misunderstanding?

I can well understand that you want BOTH a P&L report and a Balance 
Sheet report. Gnucash let's you produce both of these and you can export 
them and then use your favorite editor to make them print on the same 
piece of paper. I do that for the organizations for which I am 
treasurer. I don't expect guncash to do that for me directly and it 
wouldn't be of real help because still would want to be able to edit 
(add footnotes, control where page breaks occur for better readability, 
etc. --- too much to expect gnucash to provide the full capability of a 
good editor and that would be reinventing the wheel in any case).

If what you are saying is why doesn't gnucash provide the capability of 
producing a combined report (two reports) from one command perhaps you 
should look at this request another way. Just how many combinations are 
you asking the developers to support? While P & L + Balance Sheet might 
be a popular choice I can think of lots of others like:

P&L presented as numbers and as pie chart
Balance Sheet presented as numbers and as pie chart
Balance Sheet at the end of one period and Balance Sheet for a previous 
period (or P& L for two consecutive periods)

If there are n reports then there a n(n-1) different combinations of two.

Michael

PS -- that third example is exactly what I would present to the board of 
a non-profit for the annual report; this last year just ended compared 
to the previous.