Remove list of accounts from standard reports

[Mike or Penny Novack]

>>When I run many of the standard reports, the report starts with a long
>>list of all the accounts that are included in the report, 
>>
This might be a good time to discuss "report editing".

Possibly for "home use" it might make sense to try to have gnucash 
produce the final product. But to even the slightest more formal use of 
reports at least consider editing AFTER gnucash has produced the report. 
After all, the SAME report (in an accounting sense) might require 
different levels of detail depending on the purpose of the report. Thus 
for the 501(c)3's that I use gnucash for, there is one level of detail 
appropriate to the quarterly treasurer's report to the board and another 
(with more detail) that might be required to fill out what the 
government(s) require. And after all, not until the report has been 
produced would you know that some accounts are zero (and for the board, 
while most of these need not be shown on the quarterly report perhaps 
that some of them ARE zero would be of interest).

The point is, much easier to get the exported report into a data format 
that can be processed by an editor. Then can remove what you want to 
remove, make bold what you want bold, add footnotes for unusual items 
that would raise questions from the board (or should raise questions) 
etc. and then you still have the raw report with all its gory details 
for other purposes where you need that greater level of detail << need 
an example? the board probably wants to know just the total cost of 
putting on the annual meeting but you want the printing and postage cost 
of the meeting notice separate for the 990-EZ (or 990) as postage is a 
line item there >>

Michael