[GNC] Gnucash Reports - Comparative Income Statement

[Adrien Monteleone]

I can confirm that on 3.8, you can use the proper dates. I ran a test for those 2 years prior to my last comment and it worked as expected.

As for YTD, you’d have to run 2 separate reports and then move to a spreadsheet.

There is a comparison transaction report floating around the list from a couple of years ago. It could compare any 2 or more periods of any definition (that I recall) for any set of accounts. I played with it when budgeting, but haven’t used it in some time. I think the code needs to be updated for 3.x. (some date function call issues if I remember)

I’ll try to dig it up and test it out again.

Finally, if you have a budget set up (it doesn’t have to be populated with budgeted amounts) then you can try the Budget Report as it has YTD facilities, but you’d still have to run the two periods separately and move to spreadsheet to see them together.

The traditional multi-column report might be of some utility but it has the drawback of really being two entirely separate reports in each ‘column’ complete with their own row headers so there is a lot of duplication of info and can look a bit messy. I’ve used it in the past before going to spreadsheet and then deleting the duplicate column of row headers for sanity while reading it.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 6, 2020 w2d6, at 7:16 PM, Bill Dika <billdika at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> michael d novack
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I agree with everything you said but I am not looking
> for presentation Financial Statements. I am looking to make quick year to
> year comparisons with the reporting facility in Gnucash. Having ten years
> of financial data, I would like to make quick comparisons of YTD (year to
> date) of this year with last year (for various years), without exporting
> and massaging the presentation.
> 
> But I think Adrien is on to something (see below).
> 
> adrien monteleone
> 
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> the new (experimental) multi-column Income Statement in v3.8. That will get
>> your two periods lined up neatly.
> 
> 
> This is what I am looking for. Thank you. The "Options" dialog is a little
> off (to get an income comparison of the two years being January 1, 2018 to
> December 31, 2019, I must put in a start date of January 1, 2018
> (intuitive) but to get the correct income for 2019 I need to put in an end
> date of January 1, 2020 (not intuitive to me)). I do not need a variance
> column. Also, I am not sure how to get a YTD (year to date) comparison of
> this year to YTD for the same period last year (if you know how to get this
> from this dialog, I would be appreciate hearing it). In any case I now have
> something to work with and look forward to this coming out of experimental
> status.
> 
> Thanks to all.
> 
> Bill Dika
> 
>