[GNC] Gnucash Reports - Comparative Income Statement

D sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 10 01:02:12 EST 2020


Bill,

You might explore creating several 2 x 2 multi column reports with the individual reports embedded--one for each of your entities, with each row  putting current and previous year in a column.  Although the multi column report can be picky and slow at times, it might meet your needs in this case. 
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On Jan 9, 2020, 10:45, at 10:45, Bill Dika <billdika at gmail.com> wrote:
>Christopher Lam:
>
>I think this has been fixed in 3.8
>
>
>Not possible with this report I'm afraid.
>
>
>Thanks for the clarifications.
>
>Adrienne Monteleone:
>
>There is a comparison transaction report floating around the list from
>a
>> couple of years ago.
>>
>
>I think I have seen and tried it but could not get it to work. I am not
>a
>programmer, so am unable to fix it.
>
>
>> I’ll try to dig it up and test it out again.
>
>
>I'd appreciate knowing if you make any progress on it.
>
>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
>
>
>Good ideas, but going to a spreadsheet is not an option. I am doing
>monthly
>financial statements for 5 entities and need a quick ad hoc comparison
>of
>how each entity is doing from month to month and YTD this year compared
>to
>YTD last year and full year this year compared to full year last year.
>Choosing comparison start and end dates for this year and last year for
>the
>report would be ideal and give me the flexibility that I am looking
>for.
>
>Michael D Novack:
>
>
>> run the report ten times (once for each year) and export/print.
>>
>
>This is way too time consuming.
>
>Thanks to all.
>
>Bill Dika CPA,CA Retired
>
>On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:57 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
>stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On 1/6/2020 8:16 PM, Bill Dika 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.
>>
>> If you have NO "presentation requirements" just want to see the
>> data/comparison, run the report ten times (once for each year) and
>> export/print. Run the eleven Balance sheets and do the same. Then in
>each
>> case, you lay one sheet of paper next to the other (for that year's
>> comparison) and then set aside the oldest, slide sheets over, and lay
>in
>> place the next year's.
>>
>>
>> Michael D Novack
>>
>>
>>
>>
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