[GNC] Transaction Report: 1)Print only totals 2)Add comment to print out ?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 11/1/2019 9:46 AM, Fran_3 wrote:
> Michael, no request for added features to GC was intended. I was just 
> exploring the existing capabilities of the program.

Understood.

But I come to this from a different position. When I took over as 
treasurer (of the first organization) I asked the lawyer/accountant on 
the board SHOULD I create custom reports in gnucash. See, then recently 
retired from decades in the cypher mines, although LISP not really one 
of the languages I ever wrote in,  I could read it well enough << well, 
could READ most any of the common languages** >> and scheme is a LISP 
dialect. In other words, something I could have done.

He told me flat out no, that almost any accountant would want just the 
raw reports and would then use his or her favorite full power editor to 
add annotations, text, and all the pretty printing details.


Michael D Novack

* QuickBooks Pro for Non-Profits had been lost in the fire and although 
insurance would have paid to replace it, it didn't really have ANY of 
the special features a non-profit org needs built in. In other words, a 
"cheat".

** Once you are fluent in half a dozen or so computer languages it takes 
little time to get up to speed in another.