[GNC] Why duplicate reports in 3.2?

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote:

> If I had a vote, I’d say keep one and just delete the other entirely. Even
> a ’see also’ is just clutter. As to which name to keep, the easiest and
> likely most discoverable is “Income Statement”.

   +1

> Alternatively, and this would require a RFE, would be to have it named
> according to the Chart of Accounts created by the First Start Wizard,
> e.g.—non-profit orgs I believe use “Statement of Financial Performance”
> and a publicly traded for-profit is more likely to use “Earnings
> Statement”, though this is likely going to be complicated by locale due to
> jurisdictional requirements. Perhaps prompting the user for a desired name
> would work best here, with a sane default like “Income Statement.”

   Perhaps this naming concern is a non-issue. If the menu item reads, Income
Statement, the report options allow a different name to be entered as the
saved/printed report title so non-profits cound enter “Statement of
Financial Performance,” for-profits could enter "Earnings Statement," and
there might even be a way to set these titles as the default.

> p.s. — adjusting for inflation from the days of real dollars and cents,
> your 2¢ is probably more like $1. (or more accurately, 1 bank note with
> the words “ONE DOLLAR” printed on it)

   I was being conservative. :-) Remember how people confused the Anthony
dollar coin for quarters? I was looking for something else and found two
half-dollars stuck away in my chest of drawers. I wondered why we've not
seen them for a long time. When I gave a sales clerk one as part of my
purchase payment he asked, "What is this?" I told him it's a half-dollar,
just as it says on it and is worth 50 cents. The second coin was accepted,
elsewhere, without question by an older clerk.

Rich