[GNC] Questions

[Stephen C. Camidge]

Sounds like you wrote the program - I am new to this and do not know the history.

As a recently retired accountant, I am use GNU Cash as a replacement for Quickbooks. I like what I see, but would like the reporting capabilities of Quickbooks where possible. To me, monthly P&L and comparative P&L to prior year are very useful. I would never tell you not to implement it. I would rather request it.

Yes, I now see that I can export to a spreadsheet and modify it, but I do not think I should have to. The program should do it for me. My view may not match that of other people, so will use the workaround.

Thank you very much for the comments and advice (to all) and for the program!

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Stephen C. Camidge             scamidge at fastmail.fm   (519) 363-3912

On Wed, May 8, 2019, at 8:59 AM, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 5/7/2019 11:22 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> 
> > Comparative-period P&L is not yet implemented in GnuCash. (but as Chris Lamm noted, he has a testing version of the report that *might* fit your needs - if you can try it, please do so)
> 
> One reason it has not been implemented is that when I began (2007) using 
> gnucash for organizational accounting I was advised not to bother.  A 
> non-profit, for annual reports, always shows this year vs last year 
> Balance Sheet and Statement of Revenues and Expenses (what a non-profit 
> calls P&L). As a recently retired senior analyst, decades 
> designing/writing financial systems software, and able to at least read 
> LISP, I could presumably have managed the scheme for these special 
> reports. And if I wrote them, I would have shared them.
> 
> The lawyer/accountant who said "do it outside of gnucash with a full 
> power editor" was persuasive, correct that there would STILL be a lot of 
> editing remaining to be done, so better to do all editing at one time 
> with one tool designed for the purpose.
> 
> Michael D Novack, FLMI
> 
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