Account Report/Register Report

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 3/8/2018 5:40 PM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:
> I've tested the report several times under varying use cases and
> cross-checked against both pen & paper and a spreadsheet, so I'm fairly
> confident that it's reporting what I want it to report.
>
> David C. suggested saving the register report and I certainly could do
> that. Honestly, it hadn't occurred to me to save the report. The catch is
> that this report doesn't currently allow you to select/change the account
> at runtime, so I would have to create a separate, saved report for each
> account I wanted to report on.
Well, after running the report could export it.

That's what I do. I have a folder into which reports are exported and 
then suitably renamed. Then I can refer back to them at any time in the 
future without gnuscash itself being cluttered. It just needs one 
"skeleton" for each report I run.

For example, take an organization for which I am treasurer and the board 
of directors meets quarterly. So each quarter I would be running an 
Income Statement report retitled "Statement of Revenues and Expenses" 
and a Balance Sheet for the end of that quarter and export them. 
(already have the Balance Sheet for the beginning of the quarter run as 
Balance Sheet of the previous quarter) Then I would rename them (in that 
folder) to something like "Revenues-and-Expenses-q1-2018" and 
"Balance-Sheet-20180331". << those are the RAW reports -- I use the 
contents of those to produce the pretty print, excess detail removed 
reports that the board gets >>

Michael D Novack