Customized saved-reports file per gnucash file (i.e. per company)

Amish anon.amish at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 00:06:34 EDT 2017



On Tuesday 10 October 2017 09:20 PM, Maf. King wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:20:28 BST Amish wrote:
>
>> So I would like to know if there is way to have customized saved-reports
>> file per gnucash file? Name and location of which can be stored in that
>> gnucash file itself.
>>
>> So that I do not have to keep re-selecting accounts everytime and
>> reports related to company A does not show when gnucash of company B is
>> opened and vice versa.
>>
>
> Hi Amish.
>
> Not that I know of.  I've dealt with this by calling the reports CompanyA-Foo
> and CompanyB-Foo
>
> Although, I must say that I think the report saved accounts by name, not ID,
> so one report could be used as the basis for the second company, with only a
> little tweaking.
>
> Maf.

I know thats how I have done it right now.

But I am from India where recently GST taxatio was introduced.

I have managed to configure Gnucash for the same.

For GST return filing Government needs many types of reporting every month.

Report for 3 types of taxes (IGST/CGST/SGST)
Report for trade payable (purchase+tax)
Report for trade receivable (sale+tax)
Report for taxable sales
Report for taxable purchase
Then there are reports for sale/purchase to/from GST dealers
And then same reports for dealers not registered under GST

As you can see there are almost 11-12 types of reports that we have 
provide to Government at end of every month

Now if I create customized reports I will have:
CompanyA-Sale, CompanyA-Purchase, ... 11-12 reports
same way 11-12 reports for company B

I have 2 more companies which I have still not migrated to GST

So you can see the report list will be too long when I open "Saved 
report configuration"

That is why I was asking if it is possible to have:
1) saved-reports per company
2) OR saved-reports storing FULL account name - for example 
Assets:Purchase:IGST insted of account ID.

I believe 2nd option would be much better as then we dont need to create 
separate reports for each company.

Infact both 1 and 2 can be implemened, if possible that would allow to 
store reports in a better way and also make them REUSABLE.

Thanks and regards,

Amish


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