Income and Exp Comparison Reports

[Mike or Penny Novack]

>Not really -
>

The annual reports for a 501(c)3 of which I am treasurer consists of 
side by side "Revenue Statements" for just completed and previous years 
and "Balance Sheet" reports ditto.

The DATA from gnucash is used for this, two Revenue Statements (the 
report gnucash calls "Income Statement") and two Balance Sheets. The 
accountant type who prepares the "pretty" annual report uses an editor 
application to copy in this data, align it, add all the fixed text 
(statement of accounting principles used) and variable text 
(annotations, etc.). Because I used to make my living with financial 
software when we first adopted gnucash I asked him "should I do some 
custom coding here to produce the side by side reports" he said "don't 
bother Mike -- STILL going to need an editor to insert text and I have 
my favorite editor for that and ANY ACCOUNTANT WOULD HAVE HIS OR HER 
FAVORITE and not want to learn some new one you provide.

Understand? Use gnucash to keep your books and produce the (raw) 
reports. Use a full capability editor application to do the generalized 
editing required for the finished product. No matter what special 
purpose reports the gnucash developers provided you there would still be 
other special purpose reports they didn't. In terms of how the finished 
product should look there are no limits. It'd be a waste of time for the 
gnucash developers to create (another) full capability editor.

Michael

PS -- If your question is:
a) how do I export reports form gnucash so I can manipulate the data?
b) how do I get the data from the formats into which gnucash can export 
it into some other format used by editor Z (whatever)?

Ask -- but note that only "a" is really a question about gnucash