- Reports

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 12/14/2016 8:59 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
> Thank you - very helpful - sounds like you are getting Gnucash to 
> generate reports which are generally publishable, such as public 
> companies' Annual Reports.
>
> I was envisaging tweaking the standard reports to generate a blended 
> P&L with transactional detail.
> This is the report I'd produce and present to the accountant, as well 
> as the source documents.
> From what I gather this requires hacking Scheme. Beyond the reach of 
> us lesser mortals.

Well since I had made my living designing/writing software would not 
have been out of the question for me. After all, when you are fluent in 
half a dozen languages (and can read most anything) what is the big deal 
of adding one more? << nobody had ever paid me to write in LISP, and 
since not a computer science major, never formally studied it, but could 
READ something in LISP --- scheme is a LISP dialect >> In other words, I 
could have written the custom reports within gnucash. Read on.

But that is precisely the point. Our experienced accountant said "don't 
bother Mike". We would STILL be needing to edit these, to add the fixed 
text, to add the annotations, to perhaps move things around (if the 
account tree had changed) and alter the level of detail. Since would 
have to be using a full power editor in any case, why not do ALL of it 
there. He said any experienced accountant would choose to do it that way.

Michael D Novack