Any suggestions for UK businesses - program seems quite American

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 11/26/2016 10:54 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Dave,
>
> A short comment about creating reports using GnuCash. I manage a US trust
> for my deceased parents, and the legal reporting requirements for quarterly
> and annual accounting reports (receipts, disbursements, gains and losses)
> is very different than the business reports (income statement, balances
> sheet) provided by Gnucash. My trust attorney could not make heads or tails
> of the income sheet/balance sheet! However, I can export ***transaction
> reports*** for any set of accounts, import into LibreOffice Calc, and
> create a pretty report in just the right format without a lot of issues. My
> trust attorney is very happy with these reports.
>
That's one approach (and I do create my finished version reports by 
exporting the reports for gnucash and using a general purpose editor 
from there. But one thing people should know is that you have OPTIONS. 
You can't use the report title? "Income Statement" isn't what you need 
for this report, you are a non-profit so it should be "Statement of 
Revenues and Expenses"? Then change it (report title is an option). I 
suggest that anybody new to these reports first do one just to see how 
it appears by default and then go through all the things you can change.

Michael