- Reports

[Christopher Lam]

Following on an earlier thread,

> He said, don't bother Mike. Just produce the four reports (needed to
prepare the formal annual report) and export them. Balance Sheets for the
end of last period and this period and Revenue Statements (what a non-profit
calls P&L) for last period and this one.

Let's assume US fiscal year dates - does this means you'll only produce the
following 4 reports for your accountant? No transaction reports needed?
- balance sheet 30 September 2015
- balance sheet 30 September 2016
- profit & loss 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2015
- profit & loss 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016

I'm just trying to figure what everyone is presenting to their accountant.

On 13 November 2016 at 23:16, Mike or Penny Novack <mpnovack at mtdata.com>
wrote:

> On 11/13/2016 2:57 AM, Owen Carlton wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>   A question about Reports.
>>
>>   Is it possible to Customize Reports for Balance Sheet and Profit &
>> Loss, to
>> show two columns ( Current Month and Months to Date )
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Owen Carlton
>>
> Confusing question. WHAT do you mean by "months to date" for a Balance
> Sheet report. A Balance Sheet is for a specific date, not a time interval
> << you might have meant "Balance Sheet at the end of this month" vs
> "Balance Sheet at the end of last month" >>
>
> But I will now tell you what I was advised by an experienced accountant
> when I asked if I should write customized reports to do this. Because in my
> case, an experienced professional and could get by in LISP (scheme is a
> LISP dialect). He said, don't bother Mike. Just produce the four reports
> (needed to prepare the formal annual report) and export them. Balance
> Sheets for the end of last period and this period and Revenue Statements
> (what a non-profit calls P&L) for last period and this one. Then we bring
> these into a document which we can edit using our favorite general purpose
> editor. He said that any experienced accountant would do it that way
> because the final report is going to have both fixed text << stating things
> like the principles used >> plus annotations for all the items that will
> appear unusual. If going to have to edit it anyway, might as well do all of
> it using a powerful, general purpose editor.
>
> Michael D Novack
>
> PS: This also allows cleaning up the reports, not showing those zero
> balances that are not relevant for THIS report but you would want those
> accounts to stay in the books.
>
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